Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!dg!dg-rtp.dg.com!lewine From: lewine@dg-rtp.dg.com (Donald Lewine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.m88k Subject: Re: 88k Macintoshes? / New 88k family member Message-ID: <1088@dg.dg.com> Date: 29 Oct 90 19:50:02 GMT References: <13028@encore.Encore.COM> Sender: root@dg.dg.com Reply-To: uunet!dg!lewine Organization: Data General Corporation Lines: 43 In article <13028@encore.Encore.COM>, jkenton@pinocchio.encore.com (Jeff Kenton) writes: |> From article , by tom@ssd.csd.harris.com (Tom Horsley): |> > |> > To my mind, the real question is: "Will the 88k based Apple product (if it |> > ever arrives) be 88open compliant?". I am not making any accusations (yet |> > :-), but it would be just like Apple to produce an 88k box and then screw |> > around with the software architecture so you couldn't possibly run anything |> > but Apple software on it. If they don't follow the 88open standards . . . |> |> |> Apple hasn't even announced an 88k product and you're already pissing on |> them. If they decide to make an 88110 MacIntosh (and not just another Unix |> box with an Apple logo on it) a lot of the BCS/OCS specifications would |> be irrelevant. But, an 88110 MacIntosh would be a *VERY* nice machine. It is likely that a Apple 88110 system would look a great deal like A/UX 2.0 on a Mac IIfx. In other words, it would run UNIX and support BCS/OCS applications. It would preserve the MAC finder look-and-feel. Some flavor of the A/UX Mac toolbox would allow Mac applications to run as well. This would be an Apple propritary extension to the BCS/OCS. DISCLAIMER: This is all stuff that I made up. The relation to any real products is a pure accident. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Donald A. Lewine (508) 870-9008 Voice Data General Corporation (508) 366-0750 FAX 4400 Computer Drive. MS D112A Westboro, MA 01580 U.S.A. uucp: uunet!dg!lewine Internet: lewine@cheshirecat.webo.dg.com