Re: Apple and the Holy War

[Greg Buchner <nobody@wavetech.net>]

In article <20000501213102.10453.00000765@ng-bh1.aol.com>, 
supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

> Greg Buchner <nobody@wavetech.net> wrote:
> 
> >supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:
> >
> >> When will Mac users learn that the computing world
> >> of today is dynamic and the competition is not
> >> between two players but many?
> >
> >Never as long as Windows is the primary operating system
> >for x86 class machines.  I've used Windows and I keep on
> >geting Macs.  Never going to change.  And I don't care for
> >Unix, so that's not an option...BeOS is still too much of
> >an unknown so I don't consider that to be an option.
> 
> But why is this so?  It is because Apple refuses to release
> an x86 version of MacOS.  At least Windows NT existed in
> a PowerPC version at one time.

Yea, but one thing you have to remember is...does Apple
have the resources to deal with the 10s of thousands or
100s of thousands of different configurations that are
out there?

MS can, it's a larger company.  At one time I heard they
had 25,000 machines to test stuff on.  What does Apple
have to deal with for MacOS?  A couple of hundred machines
that they know very, very well.

Coming out with an x86 version of Mac OS would require
lots of resources on Apples part.

Greg B.
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