1st- get my name right. 2nd- use a font I can read and 3rd- get your facts straight and lighten up. Take a pill.
Sent from my iPad > On May 1, 2020, at 8:30 PM, M. George <m.matthew.geo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I sent this direct to you... that is pure BS Ray, be glad I didn't embarrass > you on the Elecraft list. Can you even begin to demonstrate what you are > claiming? No... you make a bald ass assertion and nothing more. The hardware > is the same at the CPU and peripheral level in almost all cases. iIt's no > more secure than the man in the moon. And yeah, that is a bald ass assertion > too! :) > > Max NG7M > >> On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 6:27 PM W2xj <w...@w2xj.net> wrote: >> Apple controls the hardware AND the software for a good reason. It just >> works. I can’t remember the last time anything crashed on my Mac. I am >> willing to spend money for top quality and I usually avoid hacks. >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> > On May 1, 2020, at 7:51 PM, M. George <m.matthew.geo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > Ray, I'm sure you know this, but you are simply running each OS as a >> > virtual machine using the Intel VT technology (not an Apple or Microsoft >> > thing at all). The reason you can't run the Mac OS on standard Intel PC >> > hard ware is due to Apple's super irritating proprietary ROM etc... >> > hardware signatures... trickery. Apple goes to extreme lengths to ensure >> > that their OS only will run on their hardware to lock you into buying their >> > hardware to use their OS. Folks will hack and get older versions of the Mac >> > OS working over time on non Apple PC hardware, but then a new Mac OS update >> > comes out and it then breaks running their OS on non Mac / Apple hardware >> > (constant cat and mouse game). I'm not saying they should or shouldn't do >> > that, but that's just what they do. So yeah, you can run a Windows OS on >> > your Mac hardware because #1, it's Intel based hardware and Apple finally >> > adopted a standard intel based platform etc...years ago when they finally >> > dumped the IBM Power PC cpu's and their terrible/horrible preemptive OS at >> > the time (amen! it saved Apple!). Jobs brought them back to the modern OS >> > era by going down the Free BSD OS path, virtually saving them from >> > bankruptcy. (not to mention Microsoft investing 100+ million in Apple back >> > then to keep them alive) >> > >> > So yeah, on your Mac / Apple PC hardware, if you can't live without the Mac >> > OS and you are willing to pony up for the price of their hardware, you can >> > still run the later versions of the Mac OS and also run virtual versions of >> > Windows and or boot directly into Windows on your Mac hardware, because >> > Microsoft doesn't lock their OS down to a specific manufactures Intel based >> > PC hardware. So don't thank Apple for running Windows on your Mac / Apple >> > hardware, thank Microsoft for keeping their OS pretty much hardware >> > independent and not forcing you to run their OS on one company's hardware! >> > >> > Those of us that use Windows as their primary OS, do the same thing as >> > you... you can virtualize and run multiple copies of Windows and other >> > operating systems at the same time like Linux etc... we have been doing >> > that for years of course and yes, we can run hacked versions of the Mac OS >> > too if we want to continually fight Apple in their efforts to lock their >> > Free BSD based OS release after release after rele >> > > > -- > M. George ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
