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To: Adam Nash who wrote (13425)	5/11/1998 7:14:00 PM
From: Travis	Respond to of 213177

Adam, thanks for the very thorough explanation. It was really helpful and I feel a lot better about the strategy. :) travis

To: Adam Nash who wrote (13425)	5/11/1998 8:13:00 PM
From: FruJu	Respond to of 213177

>Developers: Apple will provide you one API which will allow you to >deploy to Mac OS 8.x and Mac OS X. (The secret of the PPC conversion) >This means you can just incremetally upgrade your code bases to the >new OS. Plus, you still support Mac OS 8! In this respect, it's fairly similar to Microsoft's Win32 strategy - write to one common API, and you'll be able to run on both Win95 and WinNT. Remember that Windows developers had to rev their applications slightly too when Microsoft came out with Win32 in order to provide full preemptive multitasking/protected memory/etc etc etc. E>

To: Adam Nash who wrote (13425)	5/12/1998 1:14:00 PM
From: HerbVic	Respond to of 213177

Excellent and very insightful synopsis, Adam! I would only add that relevant to: "Apple will deliver a version of Mac OS that runs all of your applications with protected memory (no crashing), dynamic resource allocation (no memory settings), and preemtive multitasking." The timeline puts these attributes into the Mac-mainstream at a time when G4 is the hot retail offering and 1000mhz PPC processors are on the near horizon. At a time when internet bandwidth is at an all time high with competing advanced technologies being defined in the market place. At a time when Merced will be the hot topic, and the NT expansionist model is most vulnerable to incursion as WAN/DAN companies assess their expensive options going into the next millennium. Aye! It wull be a grreight ba'tle. But, ... WE ha' th' technology! We cun' sur'vive! HerbVic