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Date:      Wed, 21 Aug 2002 18:20:57 -0700
From:      Kevin Stevens <Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net>
To:        John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on a Mac
Message-ID:  <69122C86-B56D-11D6-8C70-003065715DA8@pursued-with.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208212020270.17375-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org>

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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


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