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Re: What exactly is Copland??

In article <mer-2407951506500001@sol.iii.net>, mer@sol.iii.net (Marc) wrote:

> > uf501am@sunmail.lrz-muenchen.de (Georg Schuster) wrote:
> > 
> > > maybe this is a trivial question. But it is very important to me to know
> > > what "Copland" is.
> 
> 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..

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