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Whoopee, Another Hoax (2/12/98)
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Wouldn't you know it? A scant two days after we tell you about the InfiniteOS project, our buddy John Farr at AppleLinks writes to tell us that InfiniteOS is no less vaporous than COS. Let's make that clearer: On an existence scale of 1 to 10, InfiniteOS rates a 0. Meaning, of course, that it's a hoax.
"Waitaminnit," you exclaim; "I downloaded the early version from their site, and it works as advertised." Well, yes, there's a 115K download at the Cache Computing site, and it does in fact let you eject floppies, restart, and play audio CD's-- but that doesn't make it an operating system. The fact that you don't have to install it to run it may have been a tip-off. But the biggest clue, according to John's source, is the fact that Kevin Avila is heading up the "development team." Apparently Kevin is well-known for running this exact same scam several times in the past, beginning with OpenOS in 1996, and followed by LimeOS a few months after OpenOS was debunked.
What exactly is it about the Macintosh that attracts OS hoaxes? What a bizarre phenomenon. I suppose it's just one of those things we have to live with, kind of like how some Windows users have to deal with registry corruption. (If you don't know what that is, count yourself among the lucky and don't ask-- believe us, you don't want to know.)
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 2/12/98 episode: February 12, 1998: Scandal! The latest OS pretender on Macintosh turf proves to be nothing but an imposter. Meanwhile, Microsoft's lawyers work to swat a fly buzzing around and asking for a billion dollars, and rumors of Allegro's imminent castration are greatly exaggerated...
Other scenes from that episode: 445: David vs. Goliath (2/12/98) Add another lawsuit to the pile that's making Microsoft's twelve gazillion lawyers richer by the second. This time, though, it's not a government agency suing the Redmond software company, as in the Department of Justice's current litigation; nor is a big computer tech company like Sun hauling their butts to court for something like contract violation in corrupting Java... 446: Allegro in Full Force (2/12/98) Yesterday we mentioned the disparity between the "Allegro Lite" descriptions posted by Mac OS Rumors and MacWEEK. MacWEEK claims that Allegro Lite is a feature-reduced version of the next Mac OS revision, which has some functions removed in order to meet the summer ship date...
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