[Info-vax] OT: IBM Offering $9-10 Per Share for Sun

[Arne Vajhøj]

JF Mezei wrote:
> Another thing. Whetever skunk works happened at Apple to allow it to
> start to deliver OS-X on the 8086 soon after the annoucement would have
> been fully funded and approved/supported skunk works.
> 
> This is quite different from midnight hacks by devoted engineers who are
> toying with a port to the 8086 and would present it to upper management
> only after it had gone far enough to be presentable (or if management
> lifted a ban on discussion of porting VMS/Hp-UX/NSK beyond that IA64 thing).

You can not port a full OS without it being an approved and funded
project - it is too big.

And the original skunkworks (Lockheed) were approved and funded.

Arne