[rescue] G5 case

[Dave McGuire]

On Tuesday, June 24, 2003, at 01:32 PM, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
>>>> I don't get it.  You'd be against having a *nix based OS with the 
>>>> OSX
>>>> interface on a PC?  Personaly I'd love to put that onto a 1.4Ghz PC 
>>>> or
>>>> similar.  Am I missing the point?
>>>
>>> It would eliminate any reason for Apple to have their own (nice)
>>> hardware.
>>>
>>> Look at what happened to NeXT.
>>
>>    ...and Be, and countless others.  "We have great hardware, mediocre
>> software, and a steadily growing user base...hey, let's port our
>> software to PCs!"
>
> I wouldn't say they had mediocre software, just immature software.  I
> still miss BeOS.  It appears it might be moving forward again though,
> albeit with now crummy hardware support.

   Eh.  I ran BeOS on my Mac years ago.  I was *not* impressed.

   I was like "whoopie doo, a UNIX-like shell with a horribly ugly 
window manager", and reinstalled MacOS that day.

         -Dave

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