As the Apple Turns: Scene 464: Infinite Controversy (2/18/98)

Infinite Controversy (2/18/98)

Oy vey, the alternative operating system known as InfiniteOS continues to vex and perplex. We received third-hand word today of a "professional Macintosh developer with 14 years' experience" calling the whole thing a "Trojan Horse virus," and classifying it as "toxic." He claims that trying to run the InfiniteOS on his 7300/180 caused hard drive corruption so severe that his only recourse was to reformat the disk. (By the way, we have reason to suspect that the developer in question is an AtAT viewer-- sir, if you're out there and you'd like to discuss the matter, please contact us via the Feedback page.)

We consulted with our buddy John Farr over at AppleLinks, who emailed Cache Computing's Kevin Avila about the allegations. The response? Whoever is making the claims of hard disk corruption either "has something really wrong with his computer" or is "just trying to bash the OS." According to Kevin, "it is almost impossible for InfiniteOS to destroy a hard disk" in its current state because all of the OS's write code is disabled. (Hmmm, if all of the write code is disabled, why is it only "almost" impossible for it to cause disk corruption?)

So who's right? Is one side wrong, or deliberately lying? Granted, this single report of hard disk corruption is the only such report we've seen, and it's all just one man's experience, but it gave us enough of a wigguns to want to warn our viewers to try the InfiniteOS only at your own risk, and only on a backed-up hard disk. Better safe than sorry, after all. Given all of the twists and turns lately with this "alternate OS" business, we have to wonder what's next... COS shipping tomorrow, perhaps?

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The above scene was taken from the 2/18/98 episode:

February 18, 1998: No day would be complete in Cupertino without reports of screaming tantrums and verbal threats among higher-ups ringing through the halls of Apple. Meanwhile, CompUSA prepares for a massive onslaught of Apple advertising next month, and rumors of InfiniteOS' potential toxicity begin to simmer...

Other scenes from that episode:

462: Cupertino Catfight? (2/18/98) Say what you will, but we're convinced that the fundamental conflict at Apple these days is the tag team of Steve Jobs' personality and ego vs. the implicit power and threat of whoever takes the CEO slot...
463: Patience is a Virtue (2/18/98) Apparently we weren't the only ones peeved by the absence of Macs in the the Sunday color supplements; over 1700 people so far have signed our petition requesting that CompUSA start advertising Macs in its Sunday circulars...

Or view the entire episode as originally broadcast...


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