Re: deep archives
Re: deep archives
- Subject: Re: deep archives
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 18:20:21 -0700
At 10:32 +1000 5/16/2002, Timothy Bates wrote:
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That is so funny: Apple are discussing their next OS. It is called "Mac OS
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8.0" and will contain:
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True pre-emptive multi-tasking.
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Protected memory.
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Improved QuickDraw engine, including graphical hardware support.
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They were only out by 13 years and 2 major OS release numbers ;-)
No...at the time of the posting, the*great*new*thing was to be out fairly
soon (but after System 7 which made it in 1991 but was no doubt late), and
was to be 8 (at least the rumor mills thought so). What became Mac OS 8
happened after that great*new*thing died. Public code name "Copland". One
book author managed to get a Mac OS 8 book onto the shelves which discussed
the product, whose death followed the book's release by a remarkably short
time. I saw a copy on a remainder table within the past year. ;-(
Copland was already much delayed beyond what the post you quote expected by
the time of its death. Upon reflection, the timing of the post makes me
wonder whether the post didn't refer to a great*new*thing which preceded
Copland and died around Copland's birth. Oh well. Jon?
Combine that with the birth, troubled life, and death of the Apple Open
Collaboration Environment (AOCE), and Apple managed to toss away LOTS of
money and engineering time which could have been spent on something useful
(like AppleScript, from which team several engineers were taken for AOCE).
AOCE, by the way, generated several Inside Macintosh volumes: one was
"AOCE Application Interfaces" and is the thickest--beating Volume VI by a
bit under 1/2 inch--of the IM books at somewhere around 1200 pages ("the
hernia volume"). Mine is First Printing...June 1994.
What did we get out of AOCE? The Keychain.
--John
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA
Note to computer book industry: publish AFTER the product you describe is
real!
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