Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.misc:10526 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:8242 comp.os.msdos.misc:1660 comp.windows.misc:1936 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!att!emory!gatech!rutgers!bobsbox!graphics!darwen From: darwen@graphics.rent.com (Daniel Kraut) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.windows.misc Subject: Re: Announcement from Microsoft Message-ID: Date: 4 Apr 91 14:16:19 GMT References: <1991Apr1.231547.20368@leland.Stanford.EDU> Organization: The Graphics BBS (2D,3D,GIF,Animation) +1 908/469-0049 Lines: 52 aaron@jessica.stanford.edu (Aaron Wallace) writes: > In article <1991Apr1.061348.2511@agate.berkeley.edu> 128a-1ha@web-4e.berkeley > >In article t-billg@microsoft.UUCP (Big Guy) wr > >... > >> > >>Announcing, at last, a revolutionary new system that gives you even more > >>consistency, compatibility, and capability than you've ever known before. > >> > >>Announcing... > >> > >> > >> Microsoft Windows for the Macintosh > >> > >... > > > >What is this? The first april fools joke.. > > > >Nelson > >128a-1ha@web.berkeley.edu > > Well, it is and it isn't. 1: There was a recent article in MacWeak or > whatever that talked about the Microsoft Mac. It ends up that MS has had > a lot of influence on the Mac software world; most recently, with regards to > porting OLE to the Mac. Any owners of Excel 3 will note that the Functions > and Macros ref. is the same for the future Mac version, and thus will have > functions like DDE.POKE and such. The question is: since MS is the biggest > Mac software maker, will its standards become Mac standards? > > 2: It's well-known that OS/2 3.xx (portable OS/2, a/k/a Portable Windows) is > being ported to the 680xx architecture, esp. the Mac. Rumors of versions of > OS/2 running on Mac IIs have been reported. Since the future of OS/2 and > Windows in MS's eyes are the same, if OS/2 3.xx ever hatches for the Mac, > you'll have Windows for the Mac. > > Of course, Apple has hinted at porting HokeyFinder to Intel machines as well, > and CP/M once ran on them all... > > Actually, the first half of the "joke," about the Mac world being "left > out," sounded authentic enough... :-) > > Aaron Wallace I thought that windows was a way that the ibm could use a facsimily of the same operating system macs run on. How could you have windows for the mac, if windows emulates the finder on a mac? The Graphics BBS 908/469-0049 "It's better than a sharp stick in the eye!" ============================================================================== Internet: darwen@graphics.rent.com UUCP: rutgers!bobsbox!graphics!darwen