On 2005-06-10 8:43, Gregg Eshelman wrote: > The only things in a Mac since the B&W G3 that aren't > directly from the PC parts bin are the CPU, firewire > ports, whatever "magic" that flips the bytes between > big and little endian as they go to and fro from the > PCI bus, and the fancy case designs. Since the OS > hasn't had a big chunk stashed in physical ROM, that's > no longer a part of the computer itself. (Which is why > PearPC doesn't need a ROM image to run OSX.) > > The rest of the important bits, PCI, IDE, USB, AGP > and a few other alphabet soup items weren't invented > at Apple. Macintosh hardware has been a PC in a > plastic case with a different CPU for years. > > So Apple's finally decided to toss the last piece > that could be pointed to and claim "Not a PC!".
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