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From: ward@crl.com (Ward Mullins)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.apps
Subject: Re: Wine status March 11, 1994
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Date: 28 Mar 1994 07:57:55 -0800
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Thor Lancelot Simon (tls@panix.com) wrote:
: >ON the other hand, I am happy to find out that apple is FINALLY
: >liscensing its system as "Apple/Macintosh Destop" or something.
: >Announcements were made yesterday or something that sun and apple have
: >signed agreements to do a nice port to sparcs, and I think other
: >manufacturers have things in the works.

: Wouldn't you think that their hand was more or less forced in this by the
: efforts of ARDI?

For a FYI, the Mac App Environment is *already* ported to Sparc and 
HP/PA-Risc, and I physically saw it running at Uniforum last week.  Sun 
had a machine dedicated to it at their booth.  It ran really nicely, with 
the whole Mac environment (finder and all) in an X-window, but then it 
was running on a Sparc 10 :)  I'll see how fast it *really* is when I try 
to run it on my Sparc 1+...  Apple is giving away partially disable CD's 
right now to get people to try it.  You can run apps, but you can't 
print, save etc...

As for ARDI pushing Apple's hand, I think you give them too much credit.  
Quorum is a more likely candidate, with the honest truth probably being 
that since IBM wanted to run Apple apps under AIX on the power PC, that 
Apple finally decided they might as well just port it to the other Unix 
Workstation vendors...  That and the fact that a lot of people would 
rather have Mac than MS-Windows apps on their workstations, so they have 
an opportunity to fight microsoft in the newly developing emulated OS 
marketplace...

ward