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id m0uWB87-0007u2C; Tue, 18 Jun 96 18:28 MDT Received: from terminus (ppp-15.ts-8.hck.idt.net [169.132.51.15]) by styx.ios.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA27582; Tue, 18 Jun 1996 20:27:59 -0400 Mime-version: 1.0 Message-id: <1.5.4.32.19960619002301.00cb5198@styx.ios.com> Subject: Re: System 7.5 To: nicolaas@allshare.nl (Nico van Baren), executor@ardi.com X-mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) From: Ian Viemeister <vmeister@ios.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 20:23:01 -0400 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-sender: vmeister@styx.ios.com Sender: owner-executor@ardi.com Precedence: bulk At 12:13 PM 6/17/96 GMT, Nico van Baren wrote: >So System 7.5 is out for now. However, is it possible to install (parts of) an >earlier version of the Macintosh System in the Executor environment? Is the >Browser an integral part of the entire Executor package of can it be replaced >by (a version of) the Finder/MultiFinder? Well, _if_ Finder worked, you could just overwrite Browser. However, the last time I checked, no version of Finder manages to start (no errors, just hangs) >I put this question from a purely technical point of view; I understand there >might also be licensing or other legal problems in installing Apple software on >a non-Macintosh machine, but first I would like to know whether it is >TECHNICALLY possible. Since System 7.5 is for sale in most major computer stores, you can just buy it. I believe that ARDI plans to work on drop-in support for MacOS in the future -- but not the near future. Ian vmeister@ios.com http://styx.ios.com/~vmeister/