--- In [email protected], "uns_tressor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Jun 7, 2005, at 2:51 PM, Alex Stanley wrote: > > > > > Would I be correct in assuming that Apple will use a proprietary > > > motherboard architecture that prevents people from installing > > > MacOs on a standard PC? > > > > > > > Yes--but you'll be able to run Windows *natively* on your Mac...: > > > > "Apple also confirmed that they would not stop customers from running > > Windows on the Intel-based Mac, although the Mac OS will not run on > > another PC." > > > > > > That said, you know and I know someone will figure out how to port it > > to a regular PC...heck people are already doing that. > > Since System X sits on FreeBSD Unix, would it not be possible > to create a PC distribution based on putting FreeBSD for the PC > on a PC, and then sitting System X on top of that? The CPUs are > different, but the two variants of FreeBSD deal with that, and > the OsX talks to the FreeBSD. Is this right?
YEah. However, until the x86 version comesout, you're left with either emulating a PowerPC or recreating all the layers that sit on top of FreeBSD. Apple's taken years to create and tweak those layers, and Microsoft is still working on their equivalent, so its not an easy task. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
