South Korean engineers at the Newtech Z II private computer research institute have developed the first notebook computer to use both Apple Computer Inc and Microsoft Corp operating systems under a $1.4m government-financed project, Dow Jones & Co reports: the new Dual O/S Notebook PC has both an Intel Corp 80486 and a Motorola Inc 68030 processor, which collaborate via four locally developed chips; the institute plans to build a prototype by the end of January and exhibit it at the Cebit computer show in Hannover in March; it plans to begin mass production of the new computers in June, at an initial rate of 6,000 units a month; it is not clear how – or whether – the designers have successfully bypassed the crucial Macintosh ROM chips that Apple guards so jealously.
