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- >>>>> "Dennis" == Dennis Edgecombe <dennis_edgecombe@wsu.edu> writes:
-
- Dennis,
-
- Thank you for alerting us of this story. However, reproducing a
- complete story, verbatim, is verboten. The fair use of copyrighted
- materials is a tricky subject, but on this list, we try to be squeaky
- clean about such matters and would prefer that you give a citation so
- that the curious can look up the exact article and then give a
- summary, in your own words, perhaps with a key sentence or two from
- the original article, if the exact wording is important.
-
- Dennis> Looks like ARDI has some competition... Maybe ARDI could
- Dennis> team up with them? See story below.
-
- I don't think Quix is ARDI's competition. We do plan to make Executor
- so that you can drop System 7.5 on top of it and then get full
- compatibility. When we start making those mods, help from Quix or
- Apple would be worthwhile, but would probably not be something we
- could do, due to legal constraints.
-
- Dennis> Report: Little-known Quix puts Apple software on IBM
- Dennis> computer
-
- ...
-
- Dennis> IBM just started selling a PC that uses the chip but
- ^^^^^^^^
- Dennis> the machine's design was thought to be unacceptable for
- Dennis> Macintosh software. It instead uses IBM's AIX and OS-2
- Dennis> (though still in a test version) and Microsoft Corp.'s
- Dennis> Windows NT operating programs.
-
- "The chip" in question here is the PowerPC chip. Although it's not
- immediately obvious, even when you read the entire article, what Quix
- has done is made a PPC based IBM machine run Mac software, similarly
- to what they did with 680x0 based NeXT computers. Essentially they
- have written enough glue to make Apple's own software work on a
- slightly different hardware configuration.
-
- Presumably the ARDI engineers could do this themselves, were they not
- "clean" engineers -- i.e. engineers who have never seen any of the
- implementation details of Apple's OS or Toolbox.
-
- I have little doubt that Apple could have done this work themselves.
- If they haven't (and they may have done so in secret, for all I know),
- it's more a political issue than a technical one. After all, Apple's
- MAE team have the MacOS running on SPARCs and HPs.
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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-