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From: mjv@iris.brown.edu (Marshall Vale)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Shareware MAC
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Date: 8 Dec 89 18:20:36 GMT
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In article <6555@brspyr1.BRS.Com> tim@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Tim Northrup) 
writes:
> Don't know if this is what you are referring to or not, but in the 
6/13/88
> issue of InfoWorld was an article on work on Intermedia at Brown 
University.
> I think they used a "Toolbox Emulator" like the one you mention.  The
> text reads, in part:
> 
>         "The system originally was created for the IBM RT PC under
>          Unix 4.2 (with a Macintosh-like user interface) using Cadmac,
>          a Mac application framework from Cadmus.  However, with the
>          advent of Apple's A/UX and multitasking, the Brown team
>          was able to move part of the system to the Macintosh II."
> 
> So, Cadmac may be the product you were referring to.
  
 Did someone mention Intermedia??  Why that's made by IRIS at Brown, and
by golly that's where I work!
 A company called Cadmus reverse enginered the toolbox, the product called
CadMac.  Upon completing that task, they soon went out of business and 
Apple bought up all the rights to it.  IRIS was the only place that still
has the rights to use CadMac (though we don't anymore).
 The product that I think Tim was talking about was a cross compiling 
system that emulated toolbox routines on the IBM PC. By taking 
legal-working
Mac C source code and compiling it with this special compiler, you could
get it to run on the PC.  I'm assuming that they wrote their own windowing
system and look and such but basically used the same names and arguments
in their toolbox as in the Mac.  It was big about a 1 year ago and haven't
heard much since.

disclamer:  words are my own and no one else's.

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