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- >>>>> "Mike" == LevelGrnd <levelgrnd@aol.com> writes:
- In article <4mq7km$hi1@newsbf02.news.aol.com> levelgrnd@aol.com (LevelGrnd) writes:
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- Mike> With this week's news of Apple and IBM's agreement to give
- Mike> IBM the rights to license and sub-license the MacOS, does
- Mike> this spell any new and exciting news for ARDI. With ARDI's
- Mike> wish to integrate the true MacOS into Executor, does this
- Mike> agreement make it any easier (i.e. sub-licensing via IBM?)
-
- It may.
-
- We don't have any contacts at IBM, but when the beta1 CD-ROMs come
- back from the duplicators, we'll try sending a few of them out and see
- if we can stir up any interest.
-
- We don't yet know what IBM's license allows them to do. If they can
- produce x86 boxes that run MacOS under Linux, they could do very well
- by us. Just think, MacOS with memory protection and pre-emptive
- multi-tasking on a box that can run x86 binaries at native speed.
- That would give Metrowerks the incentive to add their existing x86
- backend to their Mac compilers so that developers could develop Mac
- applications that would run native on this new platform.
-
- I think the scenario I've described above would be best done by Apple,
- not IBM, but Apple may be too squeamish about embracing x86, something
- that shouldn't be the case with IBM.
-
- Let's cross our fingers.
-
- Anyone with high contacts at IBM should send me e-mail.
-
- Mike> Mike
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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