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- In message <4oibgb$7ms@bcarh8ab.bnr.ca> - schow@bnr.ca (Stanley Chow)29 May
- 1996 20:19:23 GMT writes:
- :>
- :>cross-posted to executor group.
- :>
- :>In article <Pine.Sola.3.91.960529143205.11705A-100000@ux5.cso.uiuc.edu>,
- :>sintes anthony rene <sintes@students.uiuc.edu> wrote:
- :>>
- :>>I would take it a step further and say that IBM should make a mac-os/2
- :>>much like win-os/2. I've seen a couple nice mac emulators so it can be done.
- :>>If they did this, I know a few people who would invest heavily in OS/2.
- :>
- :>Oh, yes. Please. With HPFS for long file names.
- :>
- :>Think of all the companies that are fighting the Mac vs Win95 wars!
- :>Many Mac shops will convert to OS/2.
- :>
- :>License Executor (or ARDI should work with IBM to make an add-on) and
- :>allow "seamless Mac-OS/2" launching. IBM already has a license to
- :>MacOS, so it could even run the finder.
- :>
- :>Way cool.
- :>
- :>Let me see, I will should be able to run an OS/2 native Netscape,
- :>a seamless Windows Netscape, a seamless Mac Netscape, a seamless
- :>X Netscape (off an Unix host); and of course WebEx; yep, that will
- :>do me fine.
- :>
- :>
- :>I know, I am babbling, but the concept is so exciting!
- :>
- :>--
- :>Stanley Chow; schow@bnr.ca, stanley.chow-ott@nt.com; (613) 763-2831
- :>Bell Northern Research Ltd., PO Box 3511 Station C, Ottawa, Ontario
- :>Me? Represent other people? Don't make them laugh so hard.
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- I think a Mac-OS/2 VDM on a Merlin PPC edition would be a much more logical
- and feasible topic. That means PowerMac applications can run at near native
- speeds, just like Windows applications run in Win-OS/2 under Intel chips.
- This also means a ready source of fast running software for the Merlin PPC,
- instead of relying slow emulation of Intel DOS and Win16 apps.
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- On the other hand, the license of the MacOS to IBM may have strings attached,
- like it must used only as a complete operating system, not as an API component
- inside a VDM. Sort of like IBM's license of Intel chips, which requires that
- such IBM made chips can never be sold in bulk but only as part of a complete
- system (on the other hand, IBM's license of Cyrix chips allows IBM to sell IBM
- branded Cyrix chips in bulk.) I don't know how things changed with Amelio,
- but Amelio appears to be much more liberal about MacOS licensing than
- Spindler. In fact, it seems that IBM could and had sublicensed the MacOS to
- two major Taiwanese firms intent on making PPC systems.
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- Rgds,
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- Chris
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- Famous People on Operating Systems--- (Pls feel free to contribute)
- Albert Einstein---"E=OS/2"
- Steve McGarret (Hawaii Five-O)---"Boot'em, Dano."
- Agent Scully (The X-Files)---"Do you really believe there is a Cairo?"
- Patrick Henry---"Give me Open Standards, or give me Death."
- Edgar Allan Poe---"Microsoft, nevermore, nevermore."
- President Roosevelt, on the day Windows 95 is launched---
- "This day shall live in infamy." >>> crobato@kuentos.guam.net <<<
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