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Copland UI ideas and code survived and shipped in Mac OS 8. Multithreaded Finder, Platinum Theme (multiple themes in fact, though killed at the last moment), wi
by tambourine_man 5y ago
Copland UI ideas and code survived and shipped in Mac OS 8. Multithreaded Finder, Platinum Theme (multiple themes in fact, though killed at the last moment), windows as tabs at the bottom of the screen.
However the main challenge, memory protection, didn't. Much like Longhorn's file system.
- pjmlp 5y agoSo now only if 100% of the features got migrated, does it count. In any case this is playing guessing games, what would have happened if Apple wasn't begging for money. So who knows how System 9, 10… would have turned out. As for the Longhorn example, part of it did ship, as SQL Server features and some ideas on ReFS.
- tambourine_man 5y agoSure, the whole point of the thread was a guessing game. I'm speculating that Apple, had it not been worried with going bankrupt, could have tried to fix code that had grown organically and incoherently over decades. And that this was a missed opportunity for the whole industry as it's probably not going to happen anytime soon.