[rescue] your next Solaris machine ??? (Sol/x86 booting on iMac)

Micah R Ledbetter vlack-lists at vlack.com
Fri Apr 14 15:48:32 CDT 2006


On Apr 14, 2006, at 11:11, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:

> The PPC apologists are never going to admit the truth: PPC is
> effectively dead as anything other than an embedded platform (and IBM
> proprietary stuff is just as much embedded as anything else).

I don't understand why you consider IBM workstations to be the same  
as other embedded platforms... You can run a real OS, have access to  
a regular CPU/plenty of RAM/no disk constraints, and it's as  
expandable as a Sun or HP or Alpha ever was. What's embedded about it?

  - Micah



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