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Copland was a bundle of fail. It would crash doing nothing at all and couldn't run anything of substance. But, typical of Apple's death spiral at the time, it t
by classichasclass 8y ago
Copland was a bundle of fail. It would crash doing nothing at all and couldn't run anything of substance. But, typical of Apple's death spiral at the time, it took Ellen Hancock saying a strong, unequivocal "kill it" to get Amelio to do so. I bet Apple would have continued to iterate on it to their doom if that hadn't happened.
- plushpuffin 8y agoCame here to post this, and upvoted you instead. Everything I've read about it indicated that Copland never worked and was an unstable POS that was impossible to develop for. At one of the Apple developer conferences, people booed and criticized the new OS's unimpressive capabilities during a demo/slideshow, prompting Amelio to come back on stage and promise to "tack on" symmetric multiprocessing. For an OS that was supposedly mere months away from release...