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- From: Jim.Matthews@dartmouth.edu (Jim Matthews)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: First Taligent Won't Run Existing Apps
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.194345.28738@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 19:43:45 GMT
- References: <ajross.714324371@husc10>
- Sender: news@dartvax.dartmouth.edu (The News Manager)
- Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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- Andrew Ross writes
- > It
- > is my understanding that Taligent is the ONLY company doing any OS
- > development for the PowerPC project.
-
- Your understanding is wrong. Apple has a big project dedicated to moving
- the MacOS to the PowerPC. Along the way they're going to put in a
- microkernel that support pre-emptive scheduling, memory protection, and
- other such goodies. When the first PowerPC Macs appear in late '93 or
- early '94 they will be running the products of this project, *not* the
- Taligent OS.
-
- > Oh please. Does System 7 have Pre-Emptive Multitasking?
- > Memory Protection? Threads? Process Ownership? Symmetric
- > Multi-Processing? The list goes on. There is a Pre-Beta release
- already
- > available (for $69) that has all of these features ALREADY IMPLEMENTED.
-
- No, but Apple will have an OS with these features (minus SMP) for testing
- next summer, and for general use within a year of NT's ship date. So
- Apple isn't too far behind in the "real OS" horserace, and I'll wager that
- they'll have an easier time upgrading their customers to microkernel MacOS
- on PowerPC than MicroSoft will have getting people to run NT on the R4000
- or Alpha.
-
- Jim Matthews
- Dartmouth Software Development
-