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Re: Competition for ARDI???
>>>>> "Dennis" == Dennis Edgecombe <dennis_edgecombe@wsu.edu> writes:
Dennis,
Thank you for alerting us of this story. However, reproducing a
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Dennis> Looks like ARDI has some competition... Maybe ARDI could
Dennis> team up with them? See story below.
I don't think Quix is ARDI's competition. We do plan to make Executor
so that you can drop System 7.5 on top of it and then get full
compatibility. When we start making those mods, help from Quix or
Apple would be worthwhile, but would probably not be something we
could do, due to legal constraints.
Dennis> Report: Little-known Quix puts Apple software on IBM
Dennis> computer
...
Dennis> IBM just started selling a PC that uses the chip but
^^^^^^^^
Dennis> the machine's design was thought to be unacceptable for
Dennis> Macintosh software. It instead uses IBM's AIX and OS-2
Dennis> (though still in a test version) and Microsoft Corp.'s
Dennis> Windows NT operating programs.
"The chip" in question here is the PowerPC chip. Although it's not
immediately obvious, even when you read the entire article, what Quix
has done is made a PPC based IBM machine run Mac software, similarly
to what they did with 680x0 based NeXT computers. Essentially they
have written enough glue to make Apple's own software work on a
slightly different hardware configuration.
Presumably the ARDI engineers could do this themselves, were they not
"clean" engineers -- i.e. engineers who have never seen any of the
implementation details of Apple's OS or Toolbox.
I have little doubt that Apple could have done this work themselves.
If they haven't (and they may have done so in secret, for all I know),
it's more a political issue than a technical one. After all, Apple's
MAE team have the MacOS running on SPARCs and HPs.
--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com
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