March 29, 1994: Copland Project Introduced

by Chris Seibold Mar 29, 2008

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.

    Australia Chris Howard had this to say on Mar 29, 2006 Posts: 929

  • Compatibility with previous versions of Mac OS was considered sacrosanct

    Since when?

    United States Beeblebrox had this to say on Mar 29, 2007 Posts: 1985

  • test

    United States Hadley Stern had this to say on Mar 29, 2008 Posts: 109

  • test yourself

    United States CaptnJack had this to say on Mar 29, 2008 Posts: 23

  • is everyone getting testy?

    United States Chris Seibold had this to say on Mar 29, 2008 Posts: 284
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