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MacOS X Port to Sparc

Janis writes "Apple has a quick-and-dirty port of MacOS X to the TI/Sun UltraSparc processor! It is not officially sanctioned by management; it was done by a group of programmers over a few days. I had a chance to play with it the other day on a Sun Ultra workstation. Being a quick hack job, it has poor hardware support; for example, not graphics accelleration (Aqua runs REEEAAAL slow on an unaccel. framebuffer). Another anamoly is lack of support for the Ultra's removable media drives. "


Hmmm...Apple System Profiler screengrabs from that platform, anyone??

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