Does anybody know what the story was with Macworld magazine cover CDs in the 1990s? As far as I've been able to tell, there were two entirely distinct series of CDs that are associated with most issues of the magazine, and the CDs don't seem to have anything to do with each other.

For example, both of these CDs claim to be associated with the June 1996 issue.

https://www.classicmacdemos.com/disc/macworld-june-1996/

They seem to have been produced entirely separately from each other, and there's not really an indication that one is supposed to be "CD1" vs "CD2". I thought that one might be US and the other UK, but there's no sign of that either.

I'm going to call this complete for now: one Power Macintosh 7300/200, quad-bootable into Mac OS 8.1, BeOS Release 5, MkLinux ("My Kind of Linux" per one of the maintainers) pre-R2, and Microsoft Windows 3.1. Since the PC Compatibility card ☠️ that final one is a bit of a cheat using SoftWindows.

One thing that is made very clear using era-specific hardware: MkLinux is so.... slow... OTOH, BeOS rips. It's so smooth.