Re: Proof that IE4 is Application Rather than OS

Michael Friedland <michael_friedland[_at_]kmob.com> wrote:
>
> Don't give MS any ideas. MS coders are probably already hard at work
> creating an NT for the PowerPC format to satisfy your query. In
> another year, Windows will probably dominate the Macintosh world as
> well. Hey, it might be the thing that saves Apple!

And PowerPC, as a sideeffect. The reality is different. Older versions of NT currently run on PowerPC. Unfortunately Microsoft asked for quite a bit of money to help port to 5.0. The CHRP platform was supposed to be the box that could boot either OS (later called the PowerPC Reference Platform - which turned out to be a horrible almost certification mark, since the AIM alliance had already used PowerPC Platform). But then Jobs came back to Apple, and killed the cloning, which IMHO killed CHRP. (Well, it may not be actually dead yet).

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