Charles Piller: Is Apple Serious About Macintosh Clones? (1995)

Actions speak louder than words: a look at Apple’s extremely quiet Mac OS licensing program. Original text by Charles Piller . Macworld Boston 1994, Tim Bajarin: Apple has to either start licensing, or lower their prices . A DTK PowerPC 601 box running Windows NT/PowerPC at PC Expo 1994 . TNPC and Mitac showing off PowerPC systems at COMDEX 1994 . Heads of Mac OS licensing: Don Strickland’s website . In memoriam . Larry Lightman’s other business: Waffle-Crete . Do you suppose any Waffle Houses have been constructed with Waffle-Crete? Jon Rubinstein talks about disbanding NeXT and founding FirePower Systems , only to have IBM pull the rug out from underneath the whole PowerPC personal systems scene. ( transcript, pages 53-58 ) Phil Schiller used to work for Macromedia ? The Pioneer MPC-GX1 Macintosh clone lands in Mac84tv’s workshop . Windows NT/PowerPC on Macintosh PowerBook G3/G4 and iMac hardware: source code , video demos . Gary Davidian, developer of the 68K emulator that underpinned the Power Mac’s success, talks about CHRP and his time at Power Computing . ( transcript , pages 33-41)

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