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In article <30ECC07C.67C7@osu.edu>, Jeff Jasper <jasper.7@osu.edu> writes:

|> Copeland is another sorry Win95 wanna be. Who the hell wants flowery 
|> window borders and other task killing features. 

Who the hell wants a fully-preemptive multitasking protected-memory
microkernal OS?  Gosh, I don't know.  It's only been the #1
techno-weenie complain about MacOS for a few years now.

|> Gershwin will be Apples prize OS. If it works like they say, we can
|> only hope, then it will be up there with NT 4.0 or whatever it will
|> be called.

If Gershwin sells as few copies as NT through 3.51, Apple is in big
trouble.

|> You will eventualy have to upgrade ALL your software to run PowerMac 
|> native so you can run Gershwin.

You will have to upgrade software to take advantage of new Copland
features, like preemptive multitasking.  Copland will continue to run
existing software.  Gershwin will enable _current_ apps to take
advantage of the new microkernel and all its features.

Software that doesn't have significant portions native on the PowerMac
by now has to be labelled "unsupported by its maker"...

|> How so, you can still run legacy software on NT and 95. With Gershwin 
|> that will be impossible, it's upgrade or die.

What evidence do you have for this?  Everything I've read and all my
experience suggests that Copland and Gershwin will have better
backward compatibility than the competing wintel platform...

Chris
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