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- Clifford T. Matthews <ctm@ardi.com> wrote:
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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?)
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- >It may.
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- >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.
-
- >--Cliff
- >ctm@ardi.com
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- Unfortunately, this is not the case. IBM's Microelectronics division
- has licenced the MacOS for bundling with the PowerPC processors that
- it produces.. It's mainly to allow a 'one-stop-shop' for hardware
- vendors that want to produce Mac clones.
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- The deal has nothing to do with the PSP (Personal Software Products)
- division, who actually makes the OS/2 operating system (and,
- basically, all of IBM's x86 OS's).
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- I wish, though... <G>
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