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- From: sfuller@tamsun.tamu.edu (Steve Fuller)
- Subject: Re: Farewell to the Mac? (not flame)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.171856.13271@tamsun.tamu.edu>
- Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
- References: <terjer-181192084445@majestix.ifi.unit.no> <1992Nov18.214939.3440@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <1992Nov19.224857.11857@times.aux.apple.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:18:56 GMT
- Lines: 38
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- I have a few questions that someone might be able to address:
-
- In article <1992Nov19.224857.11857@times.aux.apple.com> coolidge@apple.com
- writes:
-
- >Yes and no. The PowerPC family _are_ Macs. The idea is that anything
- >that runs on the current Mac line will run on the PowerPC Macintosh
- >(at speeds similar to the current high-end Macintosh machines). In
- >addition, native PowerPC applications will run much faster than
- >anything in the current line.
-
- Do you mean Apple's PowerPC machines or all PowerPC's? I would guess that
- the PowerMacs would require an Apple ROM.
-
- Will I be able of buy a machine from IBM or perhaps a 'clone' vendor and
- buy the OS from Apple? Would I need to purchase an Apple ROM?
-
- [....]
-
- >
- >This is Just Plain Wrong (TM). There is no single thing which is "the
- >system software for the PowerPC". There will be at least three
- >operating systems for the PowerPC:
- > 1) The Macintosh OS
- > 2) PowerOpen (A/UX 4.0 aka Unix)
- > 3) TaligentOS
- >The first should be available when the first PowerPC Macintosh systems
- >ship; the second at or around that point. The third is probably a
- >couple years away according to public statements made by Taligent.
-
- By 'The Macintosh OS' do you mean:
-
- A. MacOS on top on A/UX?
- B. The current System 7.0 translated into native PPC code?
- C. The new microkernal OS?
- D. All of the above? :-)
-
- /s Steve Fuller sfuller@tamu.edu Texas A&M University
-