27 Sep
2011
27 Sep
'11
8:49 a.m.
On 2011-09-27 09:21, Liam Proven wrote:
There were some Mac clones built to this, but they
were due to appear
right about the time that Steve Jobs returned to Apple and killed off
the MacOS licensing programme. The best of the PReP clones were the
Motorola ones; as soon as Motorola learned of Jobs' return, they
killed the development programme.
They were very nice machines. Still should have some of those somewhere ...
This infuriated many - there were finished review
machines
circulating. MacUser ruffled a lot of people's feathers by making the
Motorola Mac clone the magazine's Mac of the Year for, IIRC, 1996 or
1997.
The "bad" part of the PReP aliance actually was, that motorola got a
pretty good piece of the apple cake, and also a big piece of the rs6000
cake. (very similar machines back then)
> MS tried supporting those other chips in
> servers, don't think they supported workstations
There were PowerPC Windows NT Workstations, yes. I
used an IBM demo model.
Not sure they ever reached actual volume sales.
Isn't the xbox running some WinNt ?
DEC included FX!32 with Alpha NT, a Win32 emulation
layer, so DEC NT
3.x boxes could run Office 4 NT Edition. (Which I am still looking for
a copy of today.)
I thought it was part of the standard distribution. Just had a weird
name (the zip/cab/exe file) so it is not easy to find.
Cheers