On 15 July 2016 at 19:39, Swift Griggs <swiftgri...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jul 2016, Liam Proven wrote: >> But in the now-gone PowerPC era, yes, Macs used a derivative of the IBM >> POWER RISC processor line. > > I always thought it was a shame that both IBM and Apple were so tight > around the pucker strings and never were more comfortable sharing their > OS's back and forth. I would have welcomed running AIX on more than a a > mere handful of the PPCs that could do it. I would have also liked to have > seen MacOS 9.x and 10.0-10.4 (or whatever the PPC span was) available for > some bits of IBM hardware, and especially the IBM IntelliStation line of > POWER5 systems such as the Power 285 (but also RS/6000s with > framebuffers). > > @#$@#ing business-weasels got in the way. Maybe if I was older and back in > the day I could have organized a joint children of IBMers vs children of > Apple bigwigs polo & tennis tournament at a shared country club, things > would have been different. > > Of course then something like this might have happened: > https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/mar/10/tennis.france
Absolutely. Next did license out NextStep -- Sun licensed it and had it working on Solaris, but never sold it. I don't recall if IBM did. At least in that era, Apple and IBM missed a trick -- even if IBM was the sole licensee, then OS X Server on IBM server kit would have validated and legitimised OS X Server and might have given it a chance. There was also Novell's Portable Netware on POWER -- I even saw a demo of it running. Never released or sold. :-( -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR)
