On Tue, 12 Jul 2016, Liam Proven wrote: > Low End Mac looks into the history of the effort to produce a > Motif-based, clean-room Mac compatible computer in the early nineties.
Bizzaro-world. It's like Executor on steriods (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executor_%28software%29) . I never knew that there was such a beast. I couldn't even find a screenshot. I wanted to see how the blend of MacOS and MOTIF looked (that's going to be an ugly baby, but I wanted to see it anyway). Hehe, I like the summary on everymac.com: " If anything, NuTek proved that uncontrolled 'cloning' of the Macintosh would result in the same type of compatibility problems familiar to the Wintel world. " No doubt! That rarely ends well. Emulation is a tough gig. Ask the ReactOS team, the WINE & CrossOver guys, or the half dozen MS Exchange clones that try to keep up with MAPI. The put a lot of honest effort into it, and the results are still... meh. -Swift
