[WinMac] Re: Enough on the Apple on Intel Rumor (WinMac Digest #284 - 04/14/99)
David McKnight(dmcknight[at]fleetwood.com)
Thu, 15 Apr 1999 16:18:00 -0500
MARC:
I've said it before, if someone doesn't want to read a message, they should
simply skip over it. Seems to be the obvious and easy answer.
With the number of cross-platform users on this list, A discussion of Apple on
Intel or Alpha (perhaps aside from rumor-mongering) is both interesting and
relevant. A thread dies when there is no longer sufficient interest to support
it -- and of course if all of the messages remain between just a couple of
folks, probably better they take it off-list.
Frankly, one of the reasons we were so hopeful about CHRP was the initial plan
to port NT to it -- allowing us to feel completely comfortable about an
investment in our hardware should we need to work a different OS into
the box. A
dual boot option (and I don't mean VPC, though I use it) is still pretty
attractive to me. How many folks on the list have said they maintain two
different computers because of business requirements and/or personal
preferences?
It is clear to me that as long as Apple can demonstrate advantages to users and
developers for running Mac OS on PPC, they'll have a market for it (after all,
look at Sony's dominance with Beta in the professional video market). It's also
pretty clear that at least on the surface there is a business case for offering
Mac OS on Intel -- how many flavors of Linux are there? (and again,
Sony makes a
buck or two selling VHS systems).
It's also clearly easier for Apple to convince itself (well, maybe not...) to
support other processors, than to convince MS to port Access to the Mac.
Some folks won't find the thread a bit interesting -- so they should use the
features built into their e-mail clients and go around it. If they get
disgruntled about reading another posting on the subject, nobody
forced them to.
And it takes mere seconds to scan the subject list at the top of the digest. If
they get touchy about seeing a subject line over and over, they're probably a
little too intense for their own good (kinda like those guys who write lengthy
responses to one-line postings... whooaa, I think *I* just did that!).
DAVID
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> Subject: enough on the Apple on Intel rumor
> From: Marc Bizer <mlbizer@mail.utexas.edu>
> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 14:54:17 -0500
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> Hi everyone,
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> I think that this thread can now end.
>
> --Marc
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