Apple 'Star Trek'?

From: James Rice <jrice54_at_charter.net>
Date: Thu Jan 15 20:43:16 2004

BeBoxes are really cool. My NeXTs and my BeBox are probably my favorite
boxes in my collection with the Sgi stuff running a close third. I have
extra NS3.3 media for trade. I'm looking for a copy of Rhaposdy for
both Intel and PPC.

James

Witchy wrote:

>Hi folks,
>
>Googling around for more info on NeXT Computer to flesh out my new NeXT page
>on Binary Dinosaurs turned up something I'd really like to get my paws on
>but I'll bet was consigned to the bin straight away - the 'star trek'
>project started by Apple to port MacOS across to Intel hardware in the early
>90s. So far I've found that a team of engineers succeeded in the port, but
>it was canned in 1993 when Apple was moving from 68K to PowerPC processors
>and it was found to be faster on a 486.
>
>The same tale reminds me that I'd really like a Be Box too :)
>
>Cheers,
>
>--
>Adrian/Witchy
>www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk - possibly the UK's biggest online computer museum
>www.snakebiteandblack.co.uk - ex-monthly gothic shenanigans :o(
>
>
>
>


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