Copland Mac OS 8
starting in 1988, apple s next generation operating system, envisioned system 8 codenamed copland. announced in march 1994 alongside introduction of first powerpc macs. apple intended copland modern system, including native powerpc code, intelligent agents, microkernel, customizable interface named appearance manager, hardware abstraction layer, , relational database integrated finder. copland followed gershwin, promised memory protection spaces , full preemptive multitasking. system intended full rewrite of mac os, , apple hoped beat microsoft windows 95 market development cycle of 1 year.
the copland development hampered many missed deadlines. release date first pushed end of 1995, mid-1996, late 1996, , end of 1997. dedicated team of 500 software engineers , annual budget of $250 million, apple executives began grow impatient project continually falling behind schedule. @ worldwide developers conference in january 1997, apple chief executive officer (ceo) gil amelio announced that, rather release copland 1 monolithic release, copland features phased mac os following six-month release cycle. these updates began mac os 7.6, released during wwdc. mac os 8.0, released 6 months later, continued integrate copland technologies mac os.
in august 1996, apple chief technology officer ellen hancock froze development of copland , apple began search operating system developed outside company. led apple buying next , developing rhapsody evolve mac os x in 2001 (now named macos).
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