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> August 10, 1997: Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced yesterday that it has completed the acquisition of Apple Computers > November 8, 1997: Apple released a new
by vegetablepotpie 5y ago
> August 10, 1997: Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced yesterday that it has completed the acquisition of Apple Computers
> November 8, 1997: Apple released a new version of the Macintosh personal computer yesterday … the MacUltra is powered by a 300 MHz UltraSPARC II microprocessor. The MacUltra is shipped with the “Macintosh Solaris” operating system – a version of Sun’s Solaris OS with a classic Mac OS-derived desktop environment and full compatibility with classic Mac OS application
In 3 Months they switched architectures, integrated a DE on top of a new OS, and wrote an emulator for a new architecture. Impressive.
- kalleboo 5y agoThey already had an official emulator they sold that ran on SPARC/Solaris, for 68k software at least https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Application_Environment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Application_Environm...
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y agoWay too mainstream. Imagine Pomegrenade running on up to 4x4 Ross-Cypress-Fujitsu asynchronous CryoSparx, consisting of Suns (Hyper?)News-thing with seamless classic Mac OS integration, that ADB/Localtalk stuff for periphery, and so on.