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Knife Ist Ein Baumkopf? (10/23/97)
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The folks at Reality and the Macintosh Conspiracy have teamed up to debunk the supposed COS screenshots floating around the web. You may recall that COS is the "Dream OS" from Omega, a relatively unknown German development company who claims to have reverse-engineered a Mac OS 8-compatible, totally memory-protected, symmetrically multiprocessing, pre-emptively multitasking, B2-security certified clone of the Mac OS that is four times faster, runs in 4MB of RAM, only takes up 12MB of hard disk space, and will be downloadable over the web for $99-- written in under a year, with no development help from Apple, and ready to ship by November 13th.
Done laughing yet? Well, the faked screenshots had been circulating for at least a week or so and hadn't seemed to fool anybody-- until Mac the Knife posted one as the real McCoy. Appalled by the world-weary Knife's sudden and complete gullibility, Reality has posted a detailed dissection of the screenshots, pointing out nine or ten fairly serious clues that the pictures were hacked together in Photoshop by somebody with waaaaay too much time on their hands (but not nearly as much attention to detail).
The Knife has posted his embarrassment at being taken in by such a puerile prank in his current online column, which, on a completely unrelated topic, also mentions Steve Jobs' rather unfortunate parking habits. Definitely worth a read.
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Other scenes from that episode: 113: All Aboard the Express (10/23/97) MacOS Rumors has some nice little tidbits on Apple's new high-end line of computers, code-named PowerExpress and slated for release in early 1998 (hopefully at the January MacWorld Expo). They sound like some serious machines. Somewhat surprisingly to us, these new speed demons will not use the PPC 750 (commonly called the "Arthur") chip that will ship in next month's midrange Power Macintosh G3 series... 114: McNealy Warns Buyers (10/23/97) Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy once again took time to pursue his favorite hobby-- that of publicly blasting Microsoft for its various crimes against humanity. Apparently unsatisfied with only having sued Microsoft for breach of contract (you know, that whole "incompatible Java" hullabaloo), Scott threw in little oblique jabs while addressing a crowd of Sun customers, says a New.com story...
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