From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Aug 9 16:21:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA20074 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 16:21:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from foo.primenet.com (ip213.sjc.primenet.com [206.165.96.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA20065 for ; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 16:21:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bkogawa@localhost) by foo.primenet.com (8.8.6/8.6.12) id QAA05328; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 16:26:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 16:26:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199708092326.QAA05328@foo.primenet.com> To: dkelly@hiwaay.net Subject: Re: Status of USB, TX chipset, PIIX3, etc. Newsgroups: localhost.freebsd.chat References: <> <199708090051.TAA08970@nexgen.hiwaay.net> From: "Bryan K. Ogawa" Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In localhost.freebsd.chat you write: >andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu said: >> Meanwhile, what is Bill Gates going to do with Apple, assuming that >> Apple probably needs continuing infusions of funds and Microsoft >> therefore has some influence? >Think if you look closely, Apple didn't need a paltry $150M any worse than >Bill Gates does. While losing money, Apple has been losing their own cash, >not borrowed money. [rest snipped] This is a very interesting assesment. >Maybe Rhapsody will be stout enough to port/support everything but >FreeBSD's kernel and make a Un*x out of it? Yeah, yeah, wishfull thinking... But Rhapsody should be 8/10ths of Unix anyway... I even heard it will come with Lites, so the only "non-unixy" part is the kernel and all of the added Mac stuff. -- bryan k ogawa http://www.primenet.com/~bkogawa/