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- >>>>> "William" == WILLIAM J MILLER <wjm@wwa.com> writes:
-
- William> I believe that if Apple were to either put the OS on
- William> Intel hardware, or support ARDI with all the technical
- William> specs that they / you needed, they could become more
- William> profitable. Where had Microsoft made the bulk of its
- William> money? They did it by licensing the OS.
-
- I do not think that is true. I think that helped them significantly
- in the beginning, but I think their Apps (on both platforms) is where
- the bulk of their income comes from.
-
- William> Apple really can't produce the volum,e of custom ASICs
- William> needed by clone manufacturers. Thats why the deal with
- William> gateway fell through. If they out the os on NON Apple
- William> hardware, they can work out licensing agreements, to
- William> distribute the OS.
-
- That will change with PPCP, which will be shipping before we'd get
- MacOS released for Intel boxes.
-
- William> You guys (speaking to ARDI) really ought to work with
- William> QUIX, using their technology to drop in system 7.5, and
- William> allow them to use your emulator. Crate a mutual
- William> technology exchange.
-
- I disagree. What QUIX did wasn't very hard, nor was it a new concept.
- Just like the people who have made Amigas run MacOS, they've taken the
- ROMs and System file for a PPC based machine and added some glue so a
- different PPC based machine can use them. When we can afford to use
- dirty engineers, I don't think we'll have much trouble duplicating
- that type of work. We already do much of the same stuff (and tons
- more beyond it) already.
-
- William> Did anyone read in a recent MacWeek, about Apple wanting
- William> to put Windows or Windows 95 on the Mac. They ran into
- William> some problems. They lost there OEM licensing agreement
- William> with Microsoft, and in order to get a new one, they must
- William> swear that they will not sue MS for patent infringement.
- William> They then said, well why not put the non-upgrade version
- William> of WIndows95 on the Mac. Problem, it comes on 1.7 (or
- William> so) meg floppies that the mac (Super) Drive can't read.
- William> The full product does not come on CD.
-
- William> Why does Apple want Windows on Apple hardware, but they
- William> don't want MacOS on Intel (or compatible (Cyrix, AMD,
- William> NexGen)) hardware?
-
- We don't know that the report is correct, and it's not clear whether
- the "new" Apple will or won't want MacOS on Intel. One time in the
- past, Apple evaluated the possibility of putting MacOS on Intel and
- they came to the conclusion that 1) the only way it can be done
- efficiently is to do it in a source compatible way, not a binary
- compatible way and 2) the ISVs wouldn't do the ports. It is much
- easier to remember the result than the reason for the result, so many
- people will think "tried that -- it didn't work" when they think about
- MacOS on Intel.
-
- William> Bill Miller
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
-
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