Re: OT: Apple after Jobs

[Steven Lichter <shlichter@sbcglobal.net>]

in article 1146218993.666496.182920@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com, mdj at
mdj.mdj@gmail.com wrote on 4/28/06 3:09:

> PZ wrote:
>> Didn't they do that in the 80's?  I seem to recall being able to boot
>> ProDOS, ProDOS 16, DOS 3.3, RDOS, Pascal, and GSOS all on the same
>> machine.  ;-)
> 
> Or more to the point, the PC Transporter allowed us to run DOS
> software, if we so chose.
> And then, in the 90's Apple produced a machine that was equipped with
> 486 processor on a card, the 6100/DOS. A friend of mine had one of
> these... unfortunately the first generation PPC's where disappointing,
> as the majority of code was still 68k at the time, and the modest 60Mhz
> clock meant they were hardly any faster, and in many cases considerably
> worse than the previous 040 boxen
> 
> It's sure going to be interesting times ahead... One wonders though,
> that if Apple eat too much market share away from the big OEM PC
> manufacturers (Who doesn't want to replace their Dell laptop with a
> Macbook) how long it will be until they complain to the legal system
> that Apple 'play fair' and allow other vendors to run their operating
> system
> 
That will never happen.  As long as Apple allows other programs to operate
under OS.  The only thing that Microsoft got into trouble for was was not
allowing other programs to operate under Windows. Developers are giving full
access to the code.