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July 5, 2025 40 mins

Actions speak louder than words: a look at Apple’s extremely quiet Mac OS licensing program.

Original text by Charles Piller.

Macworld Boston 1994, Tim Bajarin: Apple has to either start licensing, or lower their prices. A DTK PowerPC 601 box running Windows NT/PowerPC at PC Expo 1994. TNPC and Mitac showing off PowerPC systems at COMDEX 1994.

Heads of Mac OS licensing: Don Strickland’s website. In memoriam. Larry Lightman’s other business: Waffle-Crete. Do you suppose any Waffle Houses have been constructed with Waffle-Crete?

Jon Rubinstein talks about disbanding NeXT and founding FirePower Systems, only to have IBM pull the rug out from underneath the whole PowerPC personal systems scene. (transcript, pages 53-58)

Phil Schiller used to work for Macromedia?

The Pioneer MPC-GX1 Macintosh clone lands in Mac84tv’s workshop.

Windows NT/PowerPC on Macintosh PowerBook G3/G4 and iMac hardware: source code, video demos.

Gary Davidian, developer of the 68K emulator that underpinned the Power Mac’s success, talks about CHRP and his time at Power Computing. (transcript, pages 33-41)

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