In May 1996, Gil Amelio stated that Copland was the primary focus of the company, aiming for a late-year release. Over the next several years, previews of Copland garnered much press, introducing the Mac audience to basic concepts of modern operating system design such as object orientation, crash-proofing, and multitasking.
Copland's tentatively planned successor, codenamed Gershwin, was intended to add more advanced features such as application-level multithreading.ĭevelopment officially began in March 1994. Planned as a modern successor to the aging System 7, Copland introduced protected memory, preemptive multitasking, and several new underlying operating system features, while retaining compatibility with existing Mac applications. It was intended to be released as System 8, and later, Mac OS 8. Copland is an operating system developed by Apple for Macintosh computers between 19 but never commercially released.
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