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Re: Apple's Avoiding the Intel Market.
Adam Strohl <troll@valley.net> writes:
|> Wow, I check out the MAE (Macintosh Application Environment), at
|> http://mae.apple.com/, and boy, the support every version of UNIX (it
|> seems), except the ones (UNIX OS') that run on Intel Architecture, such
|> as SCO UNIX. It really appears to me, after about 2 months o lurking on
|> comp.emulators.mac.executor, apple.com, mae.apple.com, etc., that Apple
|> is making a concous effort to avoid running MacOS programs on Intel
|> machines. Anyone else notice this ?
Well, since MAE only runs on 2 versions of Unix (Solaris 2.x on Suns and
HP-UX on HP's) I would hardly say that "it runs on every version of Unix
except the ones that run on the Intel architecture". Is Apple avoiding
the Intel market? Maybe, but Apple has made so many unusual marketing
decisions in the past, I wouldn't even try to guess. I would say that
their statement on the MAE web page that MAE is "MacOS for UNIX" would
be better phrased as "MacOS for 2 very specific versions of UNIX" ...
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Randy Winney winney@erim.org
Environmental Research Institute of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
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