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Re: Mac-OS/2 in Merlin (was Re: Suggestions For Merlin.
In message <4oibgb$7ms@bcarh8ab.bnr.ca> - schow@bnr.ca (Stanley Chow)29 May
1996 20:19:23 GMT writes:
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:>cross-posted to executor group.
:>
:>In article <Pine.Sola.3.91.960529143205.11705A-100000@ux5.cso.uiuc.edu>,
:>sintes anthony rene <sintes@students.uiuc.edu> wrote:
:>>
:>>I would take it a step further and say that IBM should make a mac-os/2
:>>much like win-os/2. I've seen a couple nice mac emulators so it can be done.
:>>If they did this, I know a few people who would invest heavily in OS/2.
:>
:>Oh, yes. Please. With HPFS for long file names.
:>
:>Think of all the companies that are fighting the Mac vs Win95 wars!
:>Many Mac shops will convert to OS/2.
:>
:>License Executor (or ARDI should work with IBM to make an add-on) and
:>allow "seamless Mac-OS/2" launching. IBM already has a license to
:>MacOS, so it could even run the finder.
:>
:>Way cool.
:>
:>Let me see, I will should be able to run an OS/2 native Netscape,
:>a seamless Windows Netscape, a seamless Mac Netscape, a seamless
:>X Netscape (off an Unix host); and of course WebEx; yep, that will
:>do me fine.
:>
:>
:>I know, I am babbling, but the concept is so exciting!
:>
:>--
:>Stanley Chow; schow@bnr.ca, stanley.chow-ott@nt.com; (613) 763-2831
:>Bell Northern Research Ltd., PO Box 3511 Station C, Ottawa, Ontario
:>Me? Represent other people? Don't make them laugh so hard.
I think a Mac-OS/2 VDM on a Merlin PPC edition would be a much more logical
and feasible topic. That means PowerMac applications can run at near native
speeds, just like Windows applications run in Win-OS/2 under Intel chips.
This also means a ready source of fast running software for the Merlin PPC,
instead of relying slow emulation of Intel DOS and Win16 apps.
On the other hand, the license of the MacOS to IBM may have strings attached,
like it must used only as a complete operating system, not as an API component
inside a VDM. Sort of like IBM's license of Intel chips, which requires that
such IBM made chips can never be sold in bulk but only as part of a complete
system (on the other hand, IBM's license of Cyrix chips allows IBM to sell IBM
branded Cyrix chips in bulk.) I don't know how things changed with Amelio,
but Amelio appears to be much more liberal about MacOS licensing than
Spindler. In fact, it seems that IBM could and had sublicensed the MacOS to
two major Taiwanese firms intent on making PPC systems.
Rgds,
Chris
Famous People on Operating Systems--- (Pls feel free to contribute)
Albert Einstein---"E=OS/2"
Steve McGarret (Hawaii Five-O)---"Boot'em, Dano."
Agent Scully (The X-Files)---"Do you really believe there is a Cairo?"
Patrick Henry---"Give me Open Standards, or give me Death."
Edgar Allan Poe---"Microsoft, nevermore, nevermore."
President Roosevelt, on the day Windows 95 is launched---
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