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To: J R KARY who wrote (24508)	5/2/1999 9:16:00 PM
From: yofal	Read Replies (2) of 213177

Just read this matter-of-factly posted in a conference on a Onenet system... Apple plans to provide Mac OS X for Merced, in large part because Intel is paying most of Apple's engineering costs. This came about because Microsoft started playing hardball with Intel and by Intel funding Apple's Mac OS X for Merced, Microsoft was forced to back down. Given the nature of Mac OS X (NeXT was specifically designed for speedy porting to new processors), it is likely that Apple will be able to deliver Merced computers before anyone else, as the rest of the world must either wait for Microsoft or port their own OSs (for those manufacturers who have an OS of their own) without the inside help that Intel is providing to Apple. The only company with a chance to match Apple would be HP, which is providing key engineering expertise for the Merced project, but given the clumsiness of HP-UX, I'd guess that Apple can move Mac OS X to Merced faster than HP can move HP-UX. Is this old news - or new rumour? emmell

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