[rescue] Mac Hints needed

[Phil Stracchino]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 10:22:17PM -0800, James Birdsall wrote:
> A genuine question: why did Apple go to so much trouble to make sure that
> Macs can't boot anything but MacOS?

Two words:  Steve Jobs.

More properly, his ego.  I've known several Apple engineers who would
grind their teeth over various pieces of technical bogosity that were
such-and-such a way for no reason other than that Steve Decreed It Shall
Be So.


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