Copland was a project at Apple Computer to create an updated version
of the Macintosh operating system. It was to have introduced protected
memory, multitasking and a number of new underlying operating system
features, yet still be compatible with the vast majority of existing
Mac software. Development began in 1994 and was underway in earnest by
1995. Starting around that time the system was also commonly referred
to as System 8 or Mac OS 8. It uses the Mach Kernel of OS X.
During development the system started collecting new features at an
alarming rate and the completion date continued to slip into the
future. In 1996 Apple's newest CEO, Gil Amelio, hired Ellen Hancock
away from National Semiconductor and put her in charge of engineering
in an effort to try to get development back on track. Instead, she
decided it was best to cancel the project outright and try to find a
suitable 3rd party system to replace it. Development officially ended
in August 1996, and after a short search they announced that Apple was
buying NeXT in order to use their NeXTSTEP operating system as the
basis of a new Mac OS.
Hancock also suggested that Apple should work on improving the
existing Mac OS 7 while the new system matured. This process would
eventually lead to the release of an unrelated operating system, re-
using the name Mac OS 8. The new operating system based on NeXTSTEP
shipped in 2001 as Mac OS X.
[External Link][1]
(Contains D7E1 A, D11E4. A big thanks to [winworldpc.com][2] for
original archival.)
More info: <
http://betaworld.forcedperfect.net/copland_d11e4/>
Compatibility
Architecture: PPC
Hardware Supported:
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NuBus-based Macintoshes: 6100/60, 6100/60AV (no AV functionality),
6100/66, 6100/66 AV (no AV functionality), 6100/66 DOS (no DOS
functionality), 7100/66, 7100/66 AV (no AV functionality), 7100/80,
7100/80 AV (no AV functionality), 8100/80, 8100/100, 8100/100 AV (no
AV functionality), 8100/110
Nu-Bus-based Performas: 6110CD, 6112CD, 6115CD, 6117CD, 6118CD
PCI-based Macintoshes: 7200/70, 7200/90,7500/100, 8500/120, 9500/120,
9500/132
All Apple keyboards and mice are now supported!
Drives formatted with Drive Setup (other initialization software may
work; if you have trouble, try reinitializing with Drive Setup 1.0.4
or later).
For builds up to and including DR1, the installer is set to ensure you
have Mac OS 7.5 or later on a hard disk 250MB or greater.
Monitors connected to either built-in video or a card set to 256
colors (8-bit) or Thousands (16-bit).
[1]:
http://www.mediafire.com/?ird2tvcbak1kk
[2]:
http://winworldpc.com/
