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Xref: sserve comp.windows.x.i386unix:8175 comp.os.linux.misc:11780 comp.os.386bsd.apps:1101 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!foxhound.dsto.gov.au!fang.dsto.gov.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!ames!sgiblab!barrnet.net!nntp.crl.com!crl.crl.com!not-for-mail 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 Followup-To: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.apps Date: 28 Mar 1994 07:57:55 -0800 Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access (415) 705-6060 [login: guest] Lines: 29 Message-ID: <2n6uq3$ieo@crl.crl.com> References: <2mfun0$j4d@universe.digex.net> <1994Mar20.183234.27732@mksinfo.qc.ca> <1994Mar22.164834.8123@uk.ac.swan.pyr> <2mnm4r$32r@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <2n67ou$jlt@panix2.panix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: crl.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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