Ahh the good old days
Gene Giannamore Abide International Inc. Technical Support 561 1st Street West Sonoma,Ca.95476 (707) 935-1577 Office (707) 935-9387 Fax (707) 766-4185 Cell [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 8:25 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT - Anyone VM a Mac Leopard OS on a PC? Hey, I got a 486 with 4 x 4 MEG EDO memory.. Oh baby, its got a smoking 40 meg IDE running PIO Mode 2. I can kick out some awesome graphics with my Dual 3DFX card that makes Duke Nukem 3D practically non pixilated in 16 Color VGA, not no EGA mode here. Wait till I tell you how I tweaked my autoexec and config.sys to to get me 612k of usable memory under EMS mode without a bootloader. Plus its so cool that with the fan on the side I can set an glass of ice next to it and I got a built in AC unit. Now that's efficient. From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 8:08 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT - Anyone VM a Mac Leopard OS on a PC? Huh? I haven't noticed anything particularly optimised about the two Macs (one Macbook and one Mac Mini) I have at home, that I can't get in other brands... Cheers Ken From: Eric Brouwer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, 18 December 2008 5:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT - Anyone VM a Mac Leopard OS on a PC? Agreed. Apple's are FAR from generic white boxes. They are HIGHLY optimized, extremely efficient architectures. On Dec 17, 2008, at 12:23 PM, Jonathan Link wrote: It's not whitebox, it's branded, that brand is Apple. When I purched my MBPro, I spec'ed similary equipped notebooks from HP, Dell and Lenovo. Apple was more expensive than some, less than others, and I had the option of running a true UNIX as was mentioned earlier. Apple is a Tier 1 manufacturer just as HP, Dell and Lenovo are. On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:11 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: "Joseph L. Casale" <[email protected]> wrote on 12/17/2008 11:13:17 AM: > >Yes, but Apple is all about total control - if you limit the OS to > only running hardware you produce, then you absolutely know that it is > *guaranteed* to work with any hardware your customer owns, and > you > can spend your software time and resources in other directions, rather > than finding ways to make it run on any hardware ever invented (which > is part of MS's problem). > > > >That's the theory, as I see it, anyway. > This was exactly my point in the old justification towards the expense > of the platform. Sorry; I haven't been following the whole thread ... > Now its whitebox intel run-of-the mill stuff? Does this _still_ apply? It does if they say so. :-) ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
