6 Jun
2014
6 Jun
'14
9:18 a.m.
On Jun 6, 2014, at 11:54 AM, Sean Caron <scaron at umich.edu> wrote:
Right? What ever happened to Copland? I always thought
Apple would have
been better off grafting the Copland interface on A/UX, than buying NeXT
and rolling over NeXTStep, LOL. If not that, they could still have at least
saved BeOS. I guess Jobs' ego won the day.
Al has hashed that over several times here, and there are plenty of other
accounts, but the short answer is "politics happened". My understanding
from all those accounts is that it was a badly managed
product with WAY
too many cooks, and other projects kept glomming onto it so they
wouldn't
get cancelled. They eventually took it out back and shot it, skinned it
and clad NextSTEP in its trappings, which is how we got OS X.
Do I recall that they almost went with Solaris as the kernel? That would
have been interesting.
- Dave