As the Apple Turns: Scene 172: COS Imminent (Uh-huh) (11/12/97)

COS Imminent (Uh-huh) (11/12/97)

Welp, tomorrow's the big day for Omega, the German developers who claim that sometime in the next 24 hours they will ship COS-- their Mac OS 8-compatible, high-security, low-RAM-footprint, low-disk-space, high-performance "alternative OS" for Macs and Mac compatibles. We've long held the belief that Omega's claims are bogus (since they include such features as four times the speed of Mac OS 8 while using 4MB of RAM, zero system crashes, support for 68030's on up, preemptive multitasking, etc.), though we have no idea why they would foist such a ruse on the Mac-using public.

So tomorrow we'll find out if we were correct in our world-weary cynicism, or if we should eat our collective hat, bite the bullet, download the sucker, shell out the $99, and zip along on our newly COS-powered supermachines. Since it's purported to be downloadable as a 20-day free trial, we're game.

By the way, if COS turns out to be a sick joke and you want a real alternative modern OS for your Powermac, MacWEEK reports that you can now download the second preview release of the BeOS for free. The stripped-down version of the super-threaded wonder OS is just 9 MB or so, and includes support for email, web surfing, ftp, etc. If you haven't yet tried the BeOS, we recommend you take it for a spin. Visit Be's site for details.

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The above scene was taken from the 11/12/97 episode:

November 12, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

173: Jobs' Shindig Cut Short? (11/12/97) We aren't the only ones who noticed that Apple's two-and-a-half-hour media event wound up being just about an hour long, and wondered if some deal fell through at the last minute. Apple Recon has been murmuring about the possibility, and today, a MacOS Rumors source provides further evidence that all was not right at the Flint Center...
174: The First Hit's Free... (11/12/97) Just a quickie, here... Macintouch included a link to an interesting Microsoft sales pitch the other day. This page is a targeted hard-sell of Windows NT servers to K-12 schools who are running Macintosh clients, whether in a mixed-platform environment, or in a Mac-exclusive setting. The ad copy really makes a strong case for buying an NT server for your school network, even though it contains some half-truths and even some outright lies (they're still claiming that NT is certified for C-2 security?)...

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