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Dave G Smith <news@pict.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <1daust2.17q9zmg7t080kN@p44.nas1.is2.u-net.net>,
> real-address-in-sig@flur.bltigibbet (Rebecca and Rowland) wrote:
> 
> >Hmm...  Given that Rhapsody was meant to run most Mac apps in the blue
> >box, I expect it would have done rather well.  But it seems that MacOS X
> >is a better thing in many ways.  I just wish Apple would produce a
> >version that'll run on Intel machines one way or another.  (But then
> >again, maybe Jobs reckons that would ruin Apple's main money earning:
> >selling Macs.)
> 
> 'Fraid not. Rhapsody for Intel doesn't (and was never intended to -
> officially at least) include the Blue Box. That is limited to Rhapsody for
> PowerPC.

Apple did talk about producing a version of the Rhapsody OS which would
let you run yellow box apps on Intel, and also include a red box for
running Win32 apps.  I've read that Apple now intends to produce a
freely available run-time version of the yellow box (a set of dlls, I
gather) for Intel boxes so you can run yellow box applications with the
current strategy.

None of these can let you run MacOS or Carbon apps on Intel boxes, of
course.

[snip]

Rowland.

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