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   From: randyhoward@FOOverizonBAR.net   
      
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   Nowhere@spamfree.com says...   
      
   > You're forgetting two major items:   
   >   
   > 1. Having the OS on x86 isn't any help at all. You also need all the   
   > apps to be ported.   
      
   Anyless they're written in assembly, that shouldn't be hard at all   
   if they use any reasonable standard programming language, and one   
   for which Apple migrates development tools.  They have gotten   
   lazy in a few places and made assumptions about byte order or word   
   size, but that's just bad code that they happened to get away with   
   and should be fixed.   
      
   Anything written at a reasonably high level and by competent   
   developers will be quick to port, provided all of the underlying OS   
   features are there on both CPUs.   
      
   > 2. If OS X runs on x86, Apple has the problem of keeping their sales   
   > level up.   
      
   Not if they make it dependent upon Apple hardware.  Something as   
   simple as putting in a proprietary set of I/O ports with magic   
   features and having OS X look for them would be sufficient.   
      
      
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   Randy Howard (2reply remove FOOBAR)   
   "Making it hard to do stupid things often makes it hard   
    to do smart ones too." -- Andrew Koenig   
      
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