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Re: Can Quix save Apple?



Clifford T. Matthews wrote:
> There are many standards in the PC world that would be very useful to
> a port of MacOS to PCs, for instance the VESA 2 extensions.

Indeed, there's hell of a lot of standards in the PC world, contrary to what 
many Mac users are led to believe by official Apple policy!

> We wrote Executor, a Macintosh emulator that allows PCs to run much
> 68k Macintosh software, and it does so faster on entry level Pentiums
> than any 68k based Macintosh Apple ever released.

Indeed, Cliff, and you are worth many many congratulations for that!

> We continue on a day to day basis assuming that Apple is not
> interested in embracing our technology, and that is their decision,
> but MacOS 7.5 could run very quickly indeed on PCs.

I believe Apple has definitely lost the game because they simply followed the 
wrong marketing policy from day one back in 1984/1985 when the first Mac was 
released. Although an exceptional machine with an exceptional & robust OS it 
finally fell short of establishing a wide user base such as this of PCs 
because of the short-sighted marketing policy from Apple.

> Intel is not the enemy.It certainly isn't ;-)

Dimitris
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