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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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