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  • Was so disappointed when they shut that project down in its infancy.
    by g023
  • Has anyone gotten it to crash yet?
    by platevoltage
  • Cool stuff.

    What about the enterprise version (https://lain.wiki/images/5/53/CoplandOS.png), though? :^)

    by BoingBoomTschak
  • I am so grateful that I can play with Copland. I was the ultimate fan boy back it the day. My first computer was an Apple ][ and we had the first Macintosh at home. All the mac fans were desperate to get a reentrant multithreaded system that didn’t let a rogue application take down the system. That and virtual memory were desperately needed. The UI is what made it all worth it, so clean and comprehensible. You always knew what was where and what felt like complete mastery of the system. MacOSX was a welcome change but it was never as comfortable or friendly or even as responsive as the original. The original mac mouse latency is still better and any system in common use today.
    by briandw
  • I’d kill to see Project Star Trek but well never see that.

    For those who don’t know it was Apple’s port to Intel before they decided that PPC was the way forward after m68k.

    by MBCook
  • Oof, that hit me right in the nostalgia - I grew up with that style of Macintosh UI and miss it quite a lot.

    (and also, how cool is it that we can run whole computers in our web browsers, just like that!)

    by pianoben
  • Very cool, I've been using macos so long but am also young enough to forget & finding it surprising just how long that monochrome watch pointer has been around.

    Its fun playing around and seeing how much has stayed the same in desktops since then, and so far the most surprising thing to me was that a scrollable text area does not re-render the text as you move the scroll bar with your mouse

    Totally makes sense that it wouldn't be worth the cycles back then, but its one of the few things that was actually surprising to me today

    by lilbigdoot
  • As a long time apple fan, Copland and what may have been occupies far more of my mind than is reasonable. But I never thought I’d actually get a chance to touch it. This is awesome to see.
    by mrkpdl

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