[clebin]

For those who never seen this stuff, and for those who want to reminisce:

Copland Article

A great MacUser article about Copland from 1995, with a ton of screenshots. The only feature that we don't have in OS 9 and/or X seems to be Assistants, which let you schedule actions. I wonder if Apple's entirely forgotten about this!

It was interesting to see the OS 9-style dialogues first appearing in 1995.
This short news-item has some more information, including talk of animated sprites as an 'active desktop' pattern (sounds familiar) and praise for Microsoft's own Public Beta/Preview programme.

Chris

[Cipher13]

Thanks for that, very cool

I'll give it a read when I'm a little more... coherent...

Cipher13

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[fobside]

im relatively new to the apple scene so i dont know all the history behind their products but that was a pretty impressive image of the desktop being "peeled off"...im vaguely familiar with copland.

[voodoo]

I think MacOS 9.1 delevered all Copleand promised, except preemtive multitasking.

Copland is here and gone.

MacOS X is the next big thing. It is so much more than Copland. Steve never does things like this on a small scale.

A new look for the Macs. Presto -> the iMac.

A new strategy for Apple. Presto -> image change and economic turnaround.

A new MacOS...

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[RAzaRazor]

Originally posted by clebin:
The only feature that we don't have in OS 9 and/or X seems to be Assistants, which let you schedule actions. I wonder if Apple's entirely forgotten about this!

That's easy! Just CRON. Standard Unix program scheduler!

[akebono]

Originally posted by RAzaRazor:
That's easy! Just CRON. Standard Unix program scheduler!

cron is powerful, but not flexible. What about scheduling /etc/daily to run at 3am -or- at shutdown? What about folder actions?

There is a lot of room for improvement in scheduling. As it stands, it's not very useful to anyone who has a powerbook or sleeps/powers down their computer. Of course, that's *nix. As a powerbook user, I'd love to see more options...

sorry for off topic.

It is interesting to see the articles explaining how we'll have to wait for 1996 to see the power of copland . water under the bridge.

[chris_h]

Originally posted by the article:
Under Copland, such budgeting should no longer be necessary. Even users with only 8 megabytes of RAM will be able to run the full Mac OS

BWAHAHAHAAH... oh man, how far we've come... i can imagine OSX in 8MB of ram..

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[davesimondotcom]

Most of the features have been put into OS 9.1 except for the preemptive multitasking and active agents.

However, I almost laughed out loud when one of the agents was set in a screen shot to "check eWorld email."



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[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

Originally posted by davesimondotcom:
Most of the features have been put into OS 9.1 except for the preemptive multitasking and active agents.

And better memory management crash resistance, new Kernel, guard pages and shipping Apple themes.

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