Re: Apple and the Holy War

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

Greg Buchner <nobody@wavetech.net> wrote:

>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?

If it doesn't then Apple is worthless.  Even Linux which
started from ground up can do this.  Even Steve Jobs'
old company's crowning achievement, NeXT OS, can
do this.  This is a bad excuse.  After all, Apple did it
before when it supported the Apple II which was just as
extendable as the PC is today.

>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.

Linux which started with much limited resources (one
person) has grown to support x86 quite well.  Steve
Jobs' NeXT did so too.  The ONLY reason Apple does
not do it is not because it can't, it is because it WON'T.

MacOS-X = NeXT OS the next generation.  NeXT OS
the old generation ran on the x86.

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

Rhapsody is the child of NeXT OS.  NeXT OS ran on
x86.  Of course Apple can do this.  It took resources
for Apple to design a Mac version of MacOS-X, not
the other way around.