Re: [MacPerl] looking at Mac OS X

[Richard Gordon <gordon@mindspring.com>]

On 1/27/99 at 14:56, raffael@mediaone.net (Raffael Cavallaro) wrote:

> In the same way,
> we got a "MacOS 8" that had the name, but none of the promised features -
> remember, MacOS 8 was originally Copland, and was promised to include
memory
> protection and PMT, nether of which was delivered).

It's been a while, but my recollection is that the MacOS8 name was adopted
purely as a disingenuous device to kill off the clone licensing and had
nothing to do with the original schedule for substantive OS enhancements. I
also think that Copland was not supposed to be especially radical (as in
providing protected memory, getting rid of extensions, etc.), but its
successor, Gershwin, was. At this point, I'm not sure if there is a
meaningful way to correlate one thing to another, but I basically consider
OS8.5.x to be Copland. In any case, I anticipate that anything that Jobs
says will be delivered will indeed be released more or less on time and more
or less as described. Altho Apple has had more than its share of missed
deadlines, a recent Wired survey tagged NT 5.0/Win 2000 as last year's
foremost vaporware and I suspect that the chronic slacker crown has passed
to Microsoft.

Richard Gordon
Gordon Consulting & Design
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