From: Jochen Schäfer (js.josch_at_gmx.de)
Date: Sun Sep 01 2002 - 00:45:46 PDT
Alexander Schreiber wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 10:22:07PM -0500, Jim Witte wrote:
......
> I don't think so. That x86 platform is most likely just a normal x86 PC
> box, no special hardware. As long as they just keep it in the lab, they
And think about how many special hardware a modern Mac has. Not many, I
guess.
Apple uses ATAPI, USB and PCI to name a few. So I guess the transition
is easier than ever.
> don't have to support the usual metric buttload of different hardware
> that is the norm for x86 PC - just the rather narrow set (one, two
> mainboards and a handful of graphic, sound and network adapters) that
> make up their internal x86 reference platform. No sense in dumping money
> into designing special own hardware if you are not planning to make
> money from it. Just look at the _very_ narrow hardware that set Darwin/x86
> is running on - that most likely mirrors what they use for MacOS X/x86.
I would really like to have MacOS X on my desktop.
Jochen
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