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Re: What exactly is Copland??
- Subject: Re: What exactly is Copland??
- From: kindall@sojourn1.sojourn.com (Jerry Kindall)
- Date: 1995/07/26
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Erik Kloeppel (erik@hypermall.com) wrote:
: In article <mer-2407951506500001@sol.iii.net>, mer@sol.iii.net (Marc) wrote:
: > Copland is the last name of Aaron Copland, an American composer who died
: > in 1990. It is also the code name for Apple's forthcoming operating system
: > otherwise known as System 8. Apple seems to like codenaming their OSes for
: > composers. System 7 was Mozart and "System 9" is Gershwin.
: When they choose "Mozart" I'll have to hold my breath - with a name like
: that, it's gonna have to be awful damn good.... and nice as Mac O/S is, it
: ain't up to Mozart standards by a long shot. But it IS better than
: Tchaikovski - which windows equates to pretty well..
Er, Mozart is System 7. I.e, the version which shipped several years ago...
: Erik@hypermall.com
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