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Apple’s abandoned Copland OS reportedly boots in a browser

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Apple’s final Copland developer build, D11E4, reportedly can boot in a browser about thirty years after the unfinished OS was abandoned. An experimental fork of the DingusPPC Power Mac emulator makes it possible.

Apple’s abandoned Copland OS reportedly boots in a browser

Booting does not remove the unfinished system’s instability

The report says an assertion can drop it into a debugger and require the user to continue manually. The demo offers a way to explore a long-abandoned system without installation, rather than making it a usable operating system.

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