From: George Graves <gmgr...@aimnet.com> Subject: Copland is DEAD! Apple takes a new tack. Date: 1996/08/09 Message-ID: <320B733B.56CE@aimnet.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 173238975 content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Aimnet Information Services mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.advocacy x-mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Macintosh; I; PPC) It's official. Amelio announced at the MacWorld convention in Boston on Wednesday (8/07/96) that Copland/Maxwell will not be released. Now, before you start wringing your hands in angst (or jumping for joy if you are a PCer), let me say that this is actually a blessing. Instead of putting out a new 'numbered' system every few years, Apple has decided to do quarterly system updates to bring ".....new and wonderful things to delight the Mac user, as they are ready." In Q1 of 1997, Apple will release Harmony, an OS update meant to give people many of the features of System 8 (and meant to be the closest thing a 68K user will get to "Copland/Maxwell" for a while). This has all been trashed. Harmony will still ship as scheduled, BUT according to Jim Gable, Apple's Vice President of Marketing for the AppleSoft Division, along with Harmony will be the System-8 kernel, a full native finder complete with memory protection and multithreaded multitasking. This means that the major parts of what was called System-8, will now ship 6 to 9 months early instead of waiting till third quarter '97 or early '98! Other parts of the new system software will ship as they are ready. This way we get to catch-up and surpass Win95 within the next 7 months, and address the Mac's major 'perceived' shortcoming, lack of multithreaded multitasking. The new all native finder will, I'm told by Apple insiders, incorporate OpenDoc at the finder level. What I have yet to find out is whether multitasking and memory protection will work with current 32-bit apps. My Apple contact says that they think it will, but that they weren't 100% sure. So rejoice! The major part of what used to be called System-8 will be out before next spring. George Graves
From: k.h...@apple.com (Kelly Hagen) Subject: Re: Copland is DEAD! Apple takes a new tack. Date: 1996/08/14 Message-ID: <k.hagen-1408961714290001@17.127.10.91>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 174534703 references: <320B733B.56CE@aimnet.com> organization: Apple Computer newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.advocacy In article <320B73...@aimnet.com>, George Graves <gmgr...@aimnet.com> wrote: > ... according to Jim > Gable, Apple's Vice President of Marketing for the AppleSoft Division, along > with Harmony will be the System-8 kernel, a full native finder complete with > memory protection and multithreaded multitasking. I know this will be disappointing, but Jim Gable did not say this. Apple did announce last week that it is changing how it releases system software. The company now intends to ship software releases in incremental segments rather than large monolithic releases because this will allow Apple to release its latest technology out to developers and customers as quickly as possible. The next system software release will be issued in January, followed by another in July. The January release will include some new functionality and integrate the latest versions of OpenDoc, Open Transport, QuickTime and Cyberdog. However, we have no details as yet to disclose about the July release. We understand that the Mac OS 8 microkernel, multitasking and protected memory are critically important and we realize that many loyal Mac OS customers are anxiously awaiting these capabilities. We are currently working hard, both internally and with our developers, to complete these technologies and estimate when they will be available. Keep pointing to the Mac OS and Mac OS 8 pages on the Web (http://www.macos.apple.com) for updated information. Kelly Hagen System Software Product Marketing Apple Computer Inc. k.h...@apple.com