[rescue] Compaq Proliant 8000

[Dave McGuire]

On Apr 29, 2004, at 4:31 PM, Sandwich Maker wrote:
> " The PC's biggest competitor for the desktop/laptop is the Macintosh, 
> and it
> " gets, what, 7% of the market?  8%?  Something in the single digits, 
> anyway.
>
> and sadly that's because they're trying to pull a microsoft and keep
> their arch/os to themselves.

   That has *nothing* to do with it.

>   think where it'd be if they opened up.
>
> imagine low-end sun/ibm/sgi wkstns on apple hdw instead of intel...

   This has been beaten to death repeatedly, and I really hesitate to go 
down that road again.

   It would KILL the platform (both hardware and OS) to "open it up" as 
you suggest.

        -Dave

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