From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jun 16 14:17:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from idiom.com (idiom.com [216.240.32.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3D1837B403 for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 14:17:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rdm@cfcl.com) Received: from cfcl.com (cpe-24-221-169-54.ca.sprintbbd.net [24.221.169.54]) by idiom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA57237 for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 14:17:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.168.205] (cerberus [192.168.168.205]) by cfcl.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f5GLJ6K68145 for ; Sat, 16 Jun 2001 14:19:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rdm@cfcl.com) Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20010616201230.8910.qmail@web13608.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20010616201230.8910.qmail@web13608.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 14:08:53 -0700 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Rich Morin Subject: Re: [Apple]RE: Mundie, Perens, GPL, BSD etc again Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 1:12 PM -0700 6/16/01, Bzdik BSD wrote: >--- Rich Morin wrote: > >> Speaking for myself, I am happy to pay Apple a bit extra if it allows >> them to do the kind of R&D that produces nice machines and OSes, stay >> out of trouble in recessions, etc. > >What do you make of the chipset? I think it's a bit outdated and they >could benefit tremendously from the power of PPC CPU if they catch up >on this one. IBM has some really amazing versions of the PPC that Apple hasn't yet taken advantage of. My presumption is that Apple is waiting until the price comes down a bit. Meanwhile, I'd love to see Apple work out a deal to put Mac OS X Server on some larger PPC-based iron. -r -- email: rdm@cfcl.com; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm - home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta/md_fb.html - The FreeBSD Browser http://www.ptf.com/tdc - Prime Time Freeware's Darwin Collection To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message