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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Macintosh vs. X windows
Message-ID: <5570@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 29 Jan 91 18:58:27 GMT
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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 >> Now, finally in my opinion, the best of all worlds would be to get
 >> someone to [write] a Mac emulator or something for X.  However, given
 >> the legal posturing of the industry these days, I'm sure that this
 >> would result in many billable hours being racked up.
 >
 >Perhaps one of our colleagues in Europe (where they aren't so
 >lawsuit-happy) will do it.  There are a lot of good hackers over there
 >where they don't believe in stupid legal inanities the way they do over
 >here.

I seem to remember an posting/message here that announced the present or
imminent existence of a package that emulated the Mac toolkit - and
perhaps other Mac ROM and System calls - on UNIX systems running X.  I
don't have that message handy, and I don't know whether the product came
out or whether the aforementioned legal annoyances killed it or whether
something else happened.