The Forgotten Mac OS Licensee (1991)

Original text by Dan Littman, Tom Moran, and Charles Piller.

Apologies for my rough voice in this one. It’s been a difficult year.

“Apple and IBM will work together on architecture-independent multimedia products and license them to other vendors.” IBM never so much as bothered to license QuickTime, and allegedly stopped distributing its multimedia tools to discourage people from using AIX for multimedia delivery.

The stupefyingly vague and dull Apple/IBM/Motorola alliance press conference. Warning: do not consume while driving or operating heavy machinery.

Get to know your new IBM RS/6000 system!

David Barnes talking about Taligent and Workplace/OS, because why not transplant your current computing environment on top of an environment that runs all environments that will be shipping Real Soon Now for … reasons?

WWDC 1997 Q&A: What’s holding back CHRP? Is Apple afraid of (gasp) being undercut by Macintosh clone makers?

clabretro: RS/6000 startup sequence and 1990s GeoCities animé fan page font in the System Management Services console. Installing and running CorelDraw, Netscape 1.0, and Quake on an RS/6000.

Remnants of CHRP in the AIX netinstall configuration assistant.

Running Windows NT on a G3? More likely than you think.

Cameron Kaiser’s extremely detailed look at Netware Server on a Power Mac 6100. How about that artwork?

That weird point in time where the highest performance AppleShare solution was a giant Apple box running AIX.

Get a load of the chonky Motorola PowerStack systems.