Apple's Copland Project: An OS for the Common Man

Published: 2005-11-10 10:30:30

Copland was intended as the next OS after Mac OS 7.5, introducing features like preemptive multitasking and a new finder with real-time indexing. However, it remained in beta and Apple ultimately shifted its focus to NeXT. A detailed overview explores the potential of this unfulfilled project.

Apple's Copland Project: An OS for the Common Man

Copland was Apple's next OS iteration to come after Mac OS 7.5, featuring preemptive multitasking, a new finder and even a spotlight-like realtime indexing system. As we all know, Copland never made it out of beta and Apple bought next instead. Still it's interesting to read about what could have been. Lowendmac has a nice overview.

Apple's Copland Project: An OS for the Common Man