From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 8 02:58:14 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8F3016A41C for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 02:58:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from shurd@sasktel.net) Received: from misav07.sasknet.sk.ca (misav07.sasknet.sk.ca [142.165.20.171]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67ABB43D4C for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 02:58:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from shurd@sasktel.net) Received: from oregano.sasktel.net ([142.165.20.197]) by misav07 with InterScan Messaging Security Suite; Tue, 07 Jun 2005 20:58:13 -0600 Received: from [192.168.0.193] (hssx-yktn-59-202.sasknet.sk.ca [142.165.59.202]) by oregano.sasktel.net (SaskTel eMessaging Service) with ESMTPA id <0IHQ00BCSW90PQ@oregano.sasktel.net> for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2005 20:58:12 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 20:52:58 -0600 From: Stephen Hurd In-reply-to: <42A62D8D.2020100@digitalarcadia.net> To: Duo Message-id: <42A65D8A.8060200@sasktel.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050516 References: <42A4FD3F.70407@pacific.net.sg> <44y89mb1e0.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20050607175303.GA96525@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <42A62D8D.2020100@digitalarcadia.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: apple moving to x86 X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 02:58:15 -0000 > On this, I do agree. I think Mac hardware lives up to a better standard > of quality than most x86 machines, BUT, I would also surmise, as > Microsoft consistantly has sold products to people who knew they were > flawed, that this is a 50/50 proposition. At best. Have you used the new stock Apple keyboards? Their new mice (with the *one* button on the BOTTOM of all places)? Both of them annoy me to no end when I'm forced to use them. If they are an example of a "better standard" I'm glad I still have my trust ultra-clicky ancient IBM PS/2 keyboard thank-you very much. (And three buttons on top of my mouse) > One thing, that I am insanely curious about, is, will this make endian > issues in sourcecode not ported to PPC go away for the most part? > Specifically in regard to networking (client/server)? SPARC64 is Tier I, PPC isn't. *shrug*