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   From: grizzledgeezer@comcast.net   
      
   >> My problem is that I don't want the operating system   
   >> blocking me from access to the machine. XP and Vista   
   >> started doing this, which annoyed me no end. (7 isn't   
   >> quite so bad.)   
      
   > That's why all Macs include a Unix terminal Windows and   
   > accept Unix commands directly. I don't see how one could   
   > obtain any more access to the machine.   
      
   I should have clarified what I meant.   
      
   Post-W2K versions of Windows (and I assume the Mac OS) try to hide the fact   
   that the computer contains a hard drive and other hardwire. Folders are just   
   "there" without any connection to a physical entity. I don't like this.   
      
      
   >> The Mac gets around this by being a basically closed system.   
   >> If there were any justice in the world, Apple would have been   
   >> dragged into court for the same reasons Microsoft has.   
      
   > I think that's another misconception or outmoded idea on your   
   > part. Macs support all of the computer standards and are not   
   > "closed " at all.   
      
   Just try selling your own version of the Mac. Just try.   
      
   Apple has a "monopoly" on both the hardware and OS. But when has Apple ever   
   been taken to court? The fact that the Macintosh doesn't have the market   
   penetration of Wintel machines has no bearing on it. The personal-computer   
   business would be better off if Apple had real competition.   
      
   My guess is that it won't be much longer before we see a non-Apple computer   
   on which either the Mac OS or Windows can be freely installed.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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