From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 21 19: 8:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3D3C37B400 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 19:08:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from services.webwarrior.net (overlord-host99.dsl.visi.com [209.98.86.99]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48FB843E70 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 19:08:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from friar_josh@webwarrior.net) Received: from markx.vladsempire.net (12-218-27-215.client.mchsi.com [12.218.27.215]) by services.webwarrior.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7C332521D; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 21:08:30 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a Mac From: Josh Paetzel Reply-To: friar_josh@webwarrior.net To: Kevin Stevens Cc: John Bleichert , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <69122C86-B56D-11D6-8C70-003065715DA8@pursued-with.net> References: <69122C86-B56D-11D6-8C70-003065715DA8@pursued-with.net> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.5 Date: 21 Aug 2002 21:06:53 +0000 Message-Id: <1029964014.226.3.camel@markx.vladsempire.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 2002-08-22 at 01:20, Kevin Stevens wrote: > > On Wednesday, August 21, 2002, at 05:23 , John Bleichert wrote: > > > On 21 Aug 2002, Josh Paetzel wrote: > >> Right, which goes back to Apple can't control the hardware anymore, and > >> they are forced to compete pricewise with Dastardly Dan's House of > >> Clones. Think IBM, circa 1983. > >> > >> Josh > >> > > > > Right - I agree with you, Apple will and should stay on PPC and not x86 > > hardware, for better or worse. I just agreed they'd have a good system > > on > > x86 too. > > Nonsense. There's a lot more to system architecture than the flavor of > CPU, and no reason at all to use a typical PC design just because you > choose to use an x86 CPU. If it was that straightforward people would > be cloning Macs now; it's no harder to buy G4s in quantity than it is > Xeons. > > KeS > In my experience THAT is nonsense. Go open up a SunBlade 100 or recent PPC. Hell, SGI has given in the point of just using intel cpus. The reason people aren't cloning Macs is legal, not technological. Apple didn't release the Power PC into the public domain ala IBM. I guess I still see this a a moot point. We most likely will not see MacOS on any sort of hardware we can homebrew ala today's typical PC. Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message