Editing Copland (operating system) (section)

===Business as usual===
While Taligent efforts continued, very little work addressing the structure of the original OS was carried out. Several new projects started during this time, such as the [[Star Trek project]], a port of System 7 and its basic applications to Intel-compatible x86 machines, which reached internal demo status. But as Taligent was still a concern, it was difficult for new OS projects to gain any traction.

Instead, Apple's Blue team continued adding new features to the same basic OS. During the early 1990s, Apple released a series of major new packages to the system; among them are [[QuickDraw GX]], [[Open Transport]], [[OpenDoc]], [[PowerTalk]], and many others. Most of these were larger than the original operating system. Problems with stability, which had existed even with small patches, grew along with the size and requirements of these packages, and by the mid-1990s the Mac had a reputation for instability and constant crashing.{{sfn|Dierks|1995}}

As the stability of the operating system collapsed, the ready answer was that Taligent would fix this with all its modern foundation of full reentrance, preemptive multitasking, and protected memory. When the Taligent efforts also collapsed, Apple was left with an aging OS and no designated solutions. By 1994, the press buzz surrounding the upcoming release of [[Windows 95]] started to crescendo, often questioning Apple's ability to respond to the challenge it presented.{{sfn|Singh|2007|p=2}} The press turned on the company, often introducing Apple's new projects as failures in the making.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Apple set to ship System 7.5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ljgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA6 |magazine=[[InfoWorld]] |volume=16 |issue=28 |date=July 11, 1994 |page=6 |first=Tom |last=Quinlan |access-date=October 2, 2021 |archive-date=October 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211002151339/https://books.google.com/books?id=ljgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA6 |url-status=live }}</ref>