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From: ernest@pundit.cithep.caltech.edu (Ernest Prabhakar)
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Subject: Re: Mac Software on a NeXT ???  PLEASE!!
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Date: 30 May 91 18:35:37 GMT
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In article <1991May30.171743.16463@cs.cmu.edu> ddj@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu (Doug  
DeJulio) writes:
> In article <1991May29.174221.14752@wam.umd.edu> mikec@wam.umd.edu (Michael D.  
Callaghan) writes:
> >One of the biggest problems was the fact that the Mac OS wants complete
> >control of the computer. Unix doesn't seem to care for that. Apparently,
> >in order for the Mac Emulator to work, it would have to kick out the NeXT
> >OS completely. Who wants that?
> 
> You wouldn't need to kick out the NeXT OS completely.  You *would*
> probably need to modify the kernel.

Ideally, you shouldn't even have to do that.  "MacMach" is, after all,  
precisely a Mac/OS built on top of Mach.  Mach can run any number of servers on  
top of itself quite easily.  Now, any Mach before 3.0 (Next runs 2.0, MacMach  
is probably 2.5) will have some divergences.  If both NeXT and MacMach rebuild  
on top of 3.0, it should be trivial.

Again, the real issue is licensing, not technology.  This issue keeps coming  
up.  At some point, somebody with good brains and good lawyers will come up  
with a solution.  Until then, let's just sit tight.

	-- Ernie P.
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Ernest N. Prabhakar                  Caltech High Energy Physics
CaJUN President        NeXTMail:ernest@pundit.cithep.caltech.edu
"...and ourselves, your servants for Jesus sake." - II Cor 5:13a