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- From: erics@infoserv.com (Eric S. Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Re: Mac OS on PC
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 92 09:09:55 PDT
- Organization: Reigning Cats and Dogs
- Message-ID: <D2150056.ljq733@erics.infoserv.com>
- Reply-To: erics@infoserv.com
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- Nazedgi@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu (nazedgi) writes:
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- > Microsoft has declared the war on Macs from the moment they released
- > Windows. Apple sued to no avail and Windows sales are skyrocketing. Now
- > they have released Windows for workgroups and Video for windows (A
- > quicktime competitor) Why doesn't Apple port the OS to the PC world?
- > I understand that it may hurt some of their hardware sales, but what
- > would hurt more, the MAC OS running on a PC or Windows machines?
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- 1. It wouldn't cut into sales of Apple hardware, it would devastate
- them. A great many people would buy cheap PCs if they could run the
- Mac OS plus DOS/Windows.
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- 2. Apple could not possibly support all the PC clones and weird combinations
- of third party hardware found in the PC world. Half the people who
- bought the Mac OS for their PC would end up screaming about how it
- doesn't work and how Apple's a piece of crap. If you think flames
- about Apple are bad now ...
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- 3. The current Mac OS has probably been written specifically for the
- 68K processor, and porting to an x86 base would probably mean an
- entire rewrite. No way is Apple going to derail their software
- development effort in such a way; their future plans lie in a different
- direction.
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- Eric Smith
- erics@infoserv.com
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