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Re: Contingency Planning
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Gavin Scott <[log in to unmask]>
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Gavin Scott <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 14 Nov 2001 16:13:31 -0800
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Roy suggests:
> Let me guess: with all this talk of us having to go out and get jobs
> burger-flipping, and with your known aversion to Wintel PCs, you're
> going to rewrite MPE/Image to run on a big Mac?

Actually Mac OS-X is one of the best targets for an MPE compatibility system
since it has good support for file systems with file-attached out-of-band
meta-data (aka somewhere to put MPE file attributes), so yes, a big Mac is
an entirely viable alternative MPE platform from a technical point of view.

G.

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