Working at Apple in 1996 I went to a meeting where all departments send people to talk with the Copeland (Apple's attempt at a modern OS that still included the

Working at Apple in 1996 I went to a meeting where all departments send people to talk with the Copeland (Apple's attempt at a modern OS that still included the old OS as a first class API) leadership. The quicktime team got into an argument with the leaders when they couldn't promise that the OS could actually give quicktime a predictable time slice, thus making video almost impossible. I think at that moment everyone realized that Copeland was a disaster (though most already assumed it would be). I left Apple soon thereafter and in the next year (1) CTO Ellen Hancock killed Copeland (2) Apple bought NeXT (3) Steve returned.