The Rumers still live!

[psyjax]

I hope this is true:

http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/17176.html

OS X for x86    Good bye windoze!!!!

I seriously think OS X would win.

[voidmain]

That would be great! I would go out on a limb and say M$ would lose big market share almost over night.

[hoojchoons]

I don't know if it's true either but just think about it, I mean just think of the consequences and the effects this would have on M$!  

[voidmain]

And if Apple would just realize how much of a haul they could take in off of this.

[Pissed_Macman]

This could finally be what kills the beast! it's almost too good to be true...

[Pissed_Macman]

But wait a minute. M$ has taken some pretty hard hits before and its only come out stronger. What if M$ and Windows managed to survive? And what about the retards that like Windows and hate Mac? Do you think they'd give it up so fast?

[voidmain]

Windows lovers are more than welcome to become the 1% minority. I can tell you businesses would switch in a heartbeat to get out from under that Nazi softare company.  It really all makes sense that they "secretly" are planning an x86 version.

Making the switch to Darwin to handle the underlying hardware interfaces was probably the easiest way to do this. Why else switch? To switch to Darwin and not have x86 in your sights to me seems a large investment for little return. But if the intent was to spread to x86 and beyond then it would be a small investment for a lot of return. It would make sense for them to keep it quiet up until release time too. It would be like dropping an atomic weapon on Redmond HQ (I can't wait!!!).

Shortly thereafter Microsoft will put the Windows source code on public domain software FTP sites, and nobody will download it.  

[ May 09, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

[Master of Reality]

i would download it, then write a major worm to take out every windows computer left! Mu ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

[voidmain]

You're too late. Microsoft already wrote that worm. It's called Outlook.

[Gooseberry Clock]

And then Microsoft would have to make a Mac version of Windows XP.

[psyjax]

quote:Originally posted by Gooseberry Clock:
And then Microsoft would have to make a Mac version of Windows XP.

HAHAHAHAH!! Who the hell would buy that?

If I saw OS X and XPee on the shelf, I think I would pick up the OS X box anyday.

[ravuya]

May I introduce to you the normal path of thought when it comes to a Winders user obtaining new software?

1.) Kazaa
2.) Morpheus
3.) You Get The Idea
...
632.) Actually purchasing the software

There's no way in hell Apple would make a profit on this thing; people won't buy it because it's unproven and there might not be enough software for it (thanks to the numbers of anti-Mac rumors about the "dearth" of software), so everyone would pirate it and not pay for a copy. I think I read somewhere that somewhere near 47% of all Windows software is pirated.

[Ctrl Alt Del 123]

Hell, even though I like Win XP, I'd buy OS X for the PC to try it!

I have never said that Macs suck, why? Becuase I have never used them myself. I only judge what I have already used.

[Master of Reality]

hmmmmmm.....
http://sourceforge.net/projects/winmac/
they realized the name was stupid and changed it to achelous, now they have two sites:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/achelous/

[ May 29, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality ]

[voidmain]

Looks like that project is as good as dead. Hasn't been a post on it in a few months...