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Re: Shareware MAC

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From: Tim Northrup
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1989 23:05
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covertr@force.UUCP (Richard E. Covert) writes:
>Dan, I thought that I read about a company that wrote a Mac Toolbox clone
>for the IBM PC. supposedly, any C code that strictly adhered to the Mac
>Toolbox rules could be recompiled on an IBM PC. And with suitable PC
>hardware (color monitor, mouse, or whatever), the application program
>would execute identically on the PC as on the Mac.
>-- 
> Richard E. Covert (covertr@gtephx) 

Don't know if this is what you are referring to or not, but in the 6/13/88
issue of InfoWorld was an article on work on Intermedia at Brown University.
I think they used a "Toolbox Emulator" like the one you mention.  The
text reads, in part:

	"The system originally was created for the IBM RT PC under
	 Unix 4.2 (with a Macintosh-like user interface) using Cadmac,
	 a Mac application framework from Cadmus.  However, with the
	 advent of Apple's A/UX and multitasking, the Brown team
	 was able to move part of the system to the Macintosh II."

So, Cadmac may be the product you were referring to.
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From: tim@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Tim Northrup)
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Subject: Re: Shareware MAC
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Date: 7 Dec 89 23:05:04 GMT
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