March 29, 1994: Copland Project Introduced

by Chris Seibold Mar 29, 2011

A quick quiz:

Is Copland

A) A great American composer?
B) The last stab Sylvester Stallone took at acting?
C) The ultimate in Apple vaporware?

Good news, all three answers are correct, although the Stallone movie was actually called Cop Land. Since this series is concerned with Apple history we'll focus on answer "C."

Copland was the supposed end all and be all operating system for Apple. The OS promised to take full advantage of RISC (reduced instruction set computing) chips, DOS and Windows friendliness, networking ease, multiuser support and would toast bagels. Well, bagel toasting is actually a promised iPod feature.

While Mac users were expecting great new things from Copland, Apple was experiencing problems producing Copland. Compatibility with previous versions of Mac OS was considered sacrosanct and questions over the look and feel were legion. The project began whetting Mac fans’ appetites needlessly in March of 1994.

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My Powerbook can already toast a bagel - and in only about 30 seconds.

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