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Re: Apple and IBM agreement (MacOS)



>>>>> "Mike" == LevelGrnd  <levelgrnd@aol.com> writes:
In article <4mq7km$hi1@newsbf02.news.aol.com> levelgrnd@aol.com (LevelGrnd) writes:


    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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