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It Walks Your Dog, Too (9/29/97)
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You think the above story is outrageous? This one's even more so-- and this isn't a joke. Macintouch has posted a reader's "confirmation" of the existence of a Mac OS 8-compatible OS being developed by a German company called Omega. This new OS, called COS, is purported to look different from Mac OS 8, but will be completely compatible with our own beloved OS at the application level. Meaning, you can run Photoshop and Excel on it.
Now here's where it gets really interesting. COS only takes 10-15MB of hard disk space. Better yet, it only eats up 500K of RAM, includes memory protection, has full preemptive multitasking, networks better than OS 8, and runs about five times faster. (Gee, will Microsoft Word crash five times faster, too?) It'll be sold for $100 over the web; since COS is so small, you just pay, and download it.
Folks, we at AtAT like to think that we're more gullible than the average six-year-old, but we've held off on posting this rumor because, frankly, even we have a hard time swallowing this one. Since COS is rumored to be in late beta, I guess we'll find out soon. The one thread of hope that we cling to is QNX, an operating system for PC's that fits on a floppy-- including PPP software, a TCP/IP stack, and a web browser. Yes, QNX really exists, and it really works. So maybe COS isn't just a pipe dream?
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Other scenes from that episode: 34: Changing Channels (9/29/97) Remember yesteday's episode, in which we told you about the meeting between Apple and the dealers? Well, the changes that Apple's making to the channel reseller program are pretty far-reaching. Luckily, MacCentral has a wonderful recap of these changes; if you have an attention span as short as ours, this is just the thing to help sum up the salient points in easily-digestible info chunklets... 35: Just Cloning Around (9/29/97) Rumors are flying that Steve Jobs has offered the Edinburgh-based Roslin Institute and pharmaceuticals company PPL Therapeutics $150 million for their clone license and all related technologies. When Ian Wilmut, an Institute member, bewilderedly replied that they had no license to sell, Jobs reportedly ordered Apple's legal department to force Roslin and PPL to cease and desist all cloning activities at once... 37: We Are Cooler Than You (9/29/97) Hey, look, we won an EMMY!! All right!! Er, well, okay, it's not really an Emmy. It's actually the MacSites 100% Mac Award, given weekly to deserving sites entirely created on and served by Mac OS machines. Our first award!...
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