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The Last for Now (2/20/98)
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We've been getting a lot of feedback about our recent InfiniteOS coverage. Many of you have thanked us for posting the warnings about potential disk corruption before you yourselves got around to trying the software. Others, however, are accusing us of deliberately trying to sink the project for unspecified reasons. While we're often the recipient of various and sundry accusations, this one in particular bothers us.
To set the record straight, we have no intention of squelching development of alternative OSes for the Mac hardware platform. Heck, we run the BeOS ourselves on occasion, and we love it. Our first mention of the InfiniteOS contained no hint of negativity, unless you consider our own paranoia about running strange software a negative relection on Cache Computing. But after it was brought to our attention that Cache Computing developer Kevin Avila had reportedly run OS hoaxes in the past, we had to tell you. And when viewer Joseph McConnell's disk-wrecking experience with the download was brought to our attention, we felt compelled to warn people about the potential danger involved in trying the software. After all, if our viewers' systems go down, how are they going to tune in to AtAT? Horror of horrors!
So, for now, this is probably our last coverage of the InfiniteOS. The summary: Based on the authors' past activity, it may be a hoax; it also may be real. Based on four viewers' feedback, it may potentially cause disk corruption; it also may not. It's worth noting, however, that at the time of this writing, the link to Cache Computing's InfiniteOS download page is returning a "File Not Found" error. And in fact, the main Cache Computing web site is simply showing an empty directory index. A temporary glitch? Or a hoax that pulled its own plug? Or, perhaps, the InfiniteOS team retreating from the public eye, with plans to re-emerge once their project is in a more palatable state to prove the naysayers wrong once and for all? We can only hope...
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 2/20/98 episode: February 20, 1998: Apple got caught sleeping in class, and woke up to find itself surrounded by Wintels. Meanwhile, Wall Street continues to smile on Apple, for reasons that range from the confident to the sinister, and the InfiniteOS leaves the show (at least for now, pending contract negotiations for a returning role)...
Other scenes from that episode: 468: Markit Shair Redukshun (2/20/98) By now we're all pretty used to reports of shrinking market share, right? It is, after all, just part of being a Mac user in the late 90's. The most recent numbers, however are a mite troubling; they indicate that Apple's piece of the education pie, traditionally a stronghold and one of their two "core markets," is dwindling at what can only be described as an alarming rate... 469: Taking Stock of Apple (2/20/98) And yet, despite the incredible shrinking market share numbers, Apple's stock has been on the rise this past week. It's actually been rising slowly but steadily since the beginning of the month, when it hovered at around 17 1/2, and has been bobbing above 20 in the last week, which is reportedly a "critical psychological barrier."...
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