From: Gregory Nowak <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: Definitely unslung
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 16:39:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070606233918.GA6260@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7795925B-859F-4021-8E1F-EC46A4B00E1D@softcon.com>
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I seem to recall reading or hearing somewhere that Apple is in the
process of porting macos to the pc, and that should supposedly be
available in 2 years.
Greg
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 06:33:40PM -0500, Travis Siegel wrote:
> Actually, the switch to intel wasn't all that bad of a plan.
> The ppc line of processors was running out of upgradability, and the
> intel still has a lot of life in them. Thus, the switch was an
> attempt to remain competative in the general market.
> With the added bonus that you can now run windows on your mac (if you
> so choose to ruin such a good machine)
> That's the draw for most, a stable os that still allows execution of
> all your legacy software just in case you absolutely can't do without
> it.
> Personally, I have booted into xp roughly 3 times in the last year,
> so for me, the xp thing was only a nice to have, but definitely not a
> necessity.
>
> However, the conversion from ppc to intel went rather smoothly
> considering it was an entire os that got ported over (I know, linux
> is on several platforms and it works just fine) Well, now apple has
> proved it can be done with a commercial os as well.
>
>
>
>
> On Jun 5, 2007, at 6:49 PM, Alex Snow wrote:
>
> > Kind of lost interest when they went intel
>
>
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Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
Georgina Joyce
` C.M. Brannon
` Kerry Hoath
` Doug Sutherland
` Buddy Brannan
` Kerry Hoath
` Travis Siegel
` Buddy Brannan
` David Poehlman
` Buddy Brannan
` David Poehlman
` Travis Siegel
` Alex Snow
` Doug Smith
` Gregory Nowak
` Travis Siegel
` Doug Smith
` Travis Siegel
` David Poehlman
` Doug Sutherland
` Doug Smith
` Doug Sutherland
` Doug Sutherland
` Travis Siegel
` Gregory Nowak [this message]
` Travis Siegel
` Luke Yelavich
` Alex Snow
` Travis Siegel
` David Poehlman
` David Poehlman
` Alex Snow
` Georgina Joyce
` Travis Siegel
` Buddy Brannan
` Travis Siegel
` Buddy Brannan
` Kirk Reiser
` Georgina Joyce
` Georgina Joyce
` Alex Snow
` C.M. Brannon
` Doug Sutherland
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