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- On Mon, 7 Aug 1995, Dennis Edgecombe wrote:
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- > Looks like ARDI has some competition... Maybe ARDI could team up with them?
- > See story below.
- >
- > PowerPC to run a new generation of personal computers. Apple began using the
- > chip in its Macintosh line last year.
- >
- > IBM just started selling a PC that uses the chip but the machine's design
- > was thought to be unacceptable for Macintosh software. It instead uses IBM's
- > AIX and OS-2 (though still in a test version) and Microsoft Corp.'s Windows
- > NT operating programs.
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- Um, how exactly is this "competition for ARDI"? ARDI makes the only MAC
- emulator available for the Intel based IBM platform on the market. These
- people are just writing a method to allow the MacOS for the PowerPC chip
- to be run on a PowerPC system that is made by IBM. I suspect that this
- was much easier than what ARDI has done in totally recreating the MAC OS
- for another processor. :)
-
- IOW, these are two totally different products that you are comparing here.
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