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End of Infinite Hoaxes? (2/15/98)
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Hee hee hee, this stuff just keeps getting better and better. The AtAT staff and our friend John Farr over at AppleLinks are in a tizzy over this latest "alternative operating system" to invade the Mac landscape. About a week ago we mentioned InfiniteOS, a new project to build an OS for the Mac from scratch. A couple of days later we told you that it was, in all likelihood, a hoax. But now Reality had to go and complicate matters by swearing up and down on a stack of bibles that the project is real.
That's right, the Reality guy is "good friends" with Kevin Avila, one of the lead developers on the project (and the man we are told was behind the previous hoaxes OpenOS and LimeOS), and he asserts that InfiniteOS is "definitely not" a hoax. The OS is currently console-based, but is slated to receive a graphical user interface soon. Reportedly, protected memory has already been implemented, and support for the G3 machines was added in "a matter of hours." (If it is a hoax, it's a pretty well-thought-out one.)
We invite any Mac programmer types to download the current build of InfiniteOS, fire it up on his/her PCI-based Powermac, and let us know what you think. If you're a Fonzie with a disassembler, dig around and tell us if you think this is real. We're still extremely doubtful that it's anything but a hoax, but unlike with the COS, at least this time there's some software upon which to build a conclusion. (We finally took the plunge and tried the booter program on our beloved PowerTower Pro, but all it did was crash hard. So in that respect, it's at least as much of an OS as, say, Windows 95.)
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 2/15/98 episode: February 15, 1998: Following the Mac's complete disappearance from the Sunday newspaper circulars, officials reportedly suspect CompUSA of foul play. Meanwhile, the young upstart InfiniteOS continues to proclaim that it's the real thing, and a shadowy figure from AtAT's past resurfaces in an ugly Pixar lawsuit...
Other scenes from that episode: 453: The Invisible Mac (2/15/98) Color us incensed! Irked, even! Look, we at AtAT are just as happy about the Apple-CompUSA deal as anyone, but if Apple's going to put all its six-colored eggs in one retail basket, could they at least have picked a basket that would advertise? Faithful viewer Tony Posadas... 455: Vengeance is Mine (2/15/98) The lawsuits that plague the world of Apple (and that drive AtAT's ratings through the ceiling-- keep 'em coming!) are starting to bleed over into other related realms. Officials at Pixar, Steve Jobs' "real company," are suing a mystery defendant over some anonymous email that broadcast the salaries of all 400 Pixar employees...
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