From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 21 18:20:58 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 BAD4C37B400 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 18:20:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pursued-with.net (adsl-66-125-9-242.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [66.125.9.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4972543E65 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 18:20:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Received: from localhost (fffinch [192.168.168.101]) by pursued-with.net (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7M1KsRe034767; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 18:20:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 18:20:57 -0700 Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a Mac Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v482) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG To: John Bleichert From: Kevin Stevens In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <69122C86-B56D-11D6-8C70-003065715DA8@pursued-with.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.482) 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 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