Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!cfctech!teemc!sycom!rkushner From: rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Mac OS Message-ID: Date: 11 Jun 91 19:03:59 GMT Organization: Life In Hell BBS, Sterling Heights, MI Lines: 30 There was a blurb on CNN Headline News yesterday about IBM and Apple having secret meetings, and that Apple will be porting the Mac OS over to the IBM PS/2, etc, etc, etc.. Does this mean Microsoft has been booted?? Who would buy an Mac for 2x the cost, when they can have an cheap 386 box that runs the same OS and the same quality of software would be avaiable? Just something doesn't sound right, since there is really nothing that the PC couldn't do running the System 7 than the Mac could running System 7, and the price difference is so great(You can get a 386 and VGA for alot less than an 68020 LC), it just doesn't sound right....And more like a stock boosting article...And a way to kick Microsoft in the butt to wake them up. They said in the blurb that Mac is looking for new outlets of their system software, but it seems that is their advantage to selling machines, it comes with the system software....Is there enough money to be made selling system software to justify porting it over? Why would they need IBM's blessing to do so anyways? Would there be enough money to be made on system software alone, where they could even stop producing computers and just sell system software if it comes down to that? Anyone heard anything more on this? The whole thing sounded kinda flaky to me. -- C-UseNet V0.42d Ronald Kushner Life in Hell BBS +1 (313) 939-6666 P.O. Box 353 14400 USR HST V.42 & V.42bis Sterling Heights, MI 48311-0353 Complete Amiga Support UUCP: uunet!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner (We are not satanic, just NUTS!) DISCLAIMER: I say what I mean, and mean what I say.