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To: soup who wrote (14226)	6/2/1998 10:39:00 AM
From: Eric Yang	Respond to of 213177

"Regarding Rhapsody for Windows/NT for PowerPC. Not happening. (Unless ... see later ...)" I wouldn't call "Diamond" Rhapsody for Windows since the idea is to get MacOSX (along with support of Carbon API) ported to run on x86 independent of Windows. So MacOSX for x86 is more accurate. The idea is to allow PC users the option of booting up either in MacOS or Windoze. Previous path for porting Mac apps to PC includes QTML and PowerBuilder...but as I understand those methods simply translates/substitute the dependency of Mac API to Windows API. As a result they run on top of Windows and are really no longer Mac apps. Diamond (if it ever comes true) is a different beast all together. The idea is that Mac developers can simply take a Carbon compliant app and without doing any additional work recompile it to run on MacOS X for x86. These ported Carbon apps will still make the same Mac API calls and have the same interaction with the MacOS, it's just that the compiler has compiled the program with x86 instruction set instead. As for the political side of things, I'm sure MSFT wouldn't like the idea of Apple invading their PC OS market with MacOS. But we can keep this a secret until MacOS for x86 is ready to ship. By then it'll be too late for MSFT to intervene. What are they going to do? threatening not to ship Office for the new platform and use the monopoly of their Office suite as leverage and prevent a working MacOS from entering the PC market? Microsoft wouldn't do such a thing. Gosh...That would be totally illegal. ;-) Eric