Re: Linux Dealt a DEATH BLOW by Apple !!!!!!!

From: ZnU (znu_at_fake.invalid)
Date: 06/07/05 

Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 02:29:10 -0400

In article <11aa4akt3eqa31a@corp.supernews.com>,
 Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com> wrote:

> On 2005-06-07, Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com> wrote:
>
> > Macs are still going to look and act like Macs, it's just that
> > a few of the chips inside are going to be different. There's
> > not going to be any significant pricing difference.
> >
> > OS-X isn't going to run on Dells or Compaqs or Whatever Else
> > any more than it does now.
>
> I'm sure they've got OS-X running on Dells or Compaqs or some
> other IA32 COTS platform at Apple [they'd be nuts not to], but
> they're not planning on shipping it.

Sure, I can't imagine they've been building custom Intel-based hardware
to maintain their internal OS X ports all these years. They probably
only support a very narrow range of hardware, though. (Probably
basically what Darwin/x86 supports.) 

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