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Omega Race for Copland (11/29/97)
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As Alice said, "Curiouser and curiouser..." Either German developers Omega have no idea when a joke's gone too far, or they really are working on this legendary COS. It's now a solid two and a half weeks overdue, though the Omega website claims it will ship "as quickly as is possible. But without any doubt: COS IS COMING!" (Run for the hills!)

But what's really creepy is that Macintouch says COS had earlier posted an urgent request on their website for a copy of a late developmental build of Copland, Apple's own personal money pit of an OS which swallowed years of development time before being ditched as simply unworkable. That request no longer appears there; does that mean they got a copy from a helpful fan, or that they found their Zip disk behind a desk? Or is this just a prank that they refuse to let die?

By the way: We at AtAT assume that if the COS is real, if it's at all based on Copland, Apple will have something to say about that. Warm up the lawyers, boys...

 
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The above scene was taken from the 11/29/97 episode:

November 29, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

Other scenes from that episode:

  • 224: No One Is Immune (11/29/97)   Macintouch also pointed us to a Washington Post article about Al Gore's wiredness. All in all, it's nice to see that Number Two not only knows what a computer is, but actually likes to use them. It may, however, be a minor problem that Gore would appear to be addicted to email, sending and receiving over a hundred messages a day.....

  • 225: PowerPC's Bowing Out? (11/29/97)   Now that the Alpha's out of the way, Intel doesn't have much competition in the processor arena. In fact, the PowerPC is the only serious contender in the desktop market (and many contend that it's not very serious)...

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