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Why doesn't Apple design an operating system for PC?
avello500:
i think apple will make marklar but keep it under wraps. if everything goes to pot, they'll introduce the os. then bill will give birth to a 32ton brick.
then the skies will part and light shall riegn down from the heavens. or something.
worker201:
Maybe i was smoking crack, but I thought one of the great things about the Mac was the total hardware/software integration. The reason print designers used Macs exclusively for so long is that the Mac monitor gamma was consistent, compared to the different gammas resulting from clashing monitors and video cards on win machines. Probably a lot of the stability of the Mac platform is based on the consistency of the hardware to the software specs.
And another thing: since Microsoft and Intel are basically married, isn't it really a Wintel issue? If you put OSX on a Wintel platform, you might be dissing MS, but you're patting their friends on the back. Keep Apple clean.
[ August 05, 2003: Message edited by: worker201 ]
avello500:
i think they should still sell harDware.
i also think it would be nice to use osx on my pc box.
jasonlane:
Part of the success of Apple is that it has control over it's hardware, I don't think that if they ever did produce a PC based OSX (by that we mean X86, don't we) that they could guarantee it the way they do under current hardware controlled conditions?
I'd like to see them try something though, I think it could destroy M$, if it worked. Otherwise it could seriously backfire and damage Apple.
bigsleep:
quote:Originally posted by Zardoz:
I don't think that if they ever did produce a PC based OSX (by that we mean X86, don't we) that they could guarantee it the way they do under current hardware controlled conditions?
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I don't know much about Macs, other than I used to use one, but I do know something about machine language, and to me this is like apples and oranges - Motorolla being the apple, Intel being the orange - the language is completely different.
This would be like porting Amiga (a ROM OS system) to x86 (a RAM OS system), doesn't make much sense really - though they are doing that now with AmigaOS, but it's really not Amiga anymore.
I think Apple would risk making themselves look bad by porting over, and probably be wasting a lot of money doing it. Porting the GUI over would be quite easy, but acheiving the same reliability would be impossible.
I may be a little behind the times, but UNIX only runs on Solaris, doesn't it?
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