From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Fri Oct 18 2002 - 13:01:11 EDT
> If I could have a Thinkpad with their os on it that would definitely
> be the best of both worlds.
thus those fellows doing a linux OS for thinkpads and other hardware..
:-)
perhaps there is opportunity here..!
<------------------------------->
Cordially, :-)
Bill Morrow
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----- Original Message -----
From: <billy_at_MIX.COM>
To: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: buying a thinkpad without microsoft is NOT POSSIBLE from IBM
> Bill Morrow <penzance_at_gate.net> said -
>
> > well, you know, apple is partly owned by M$..
>
> Ack!! I had no idea......
>
> > but even so, it is not a thought that has not occured to me, as well, if
for
> > no other reason than to see what the "dark side of the force" looks
like..
> > :-)
>
> Well, now that their os is Unix-based it's not so bad. Even though they
> still have a lot of work to do on it they are making pretty good progress
> these days. In the pre-Unix past just holding down the mouse would stop
> most everything else running at the time.........
>
> I do use IE on the Macs - it's not only free, it's a lot slicker than
> IE on windows too. Of course it still crashes and occasionally takes
> down the whole computer just like on windows, but up until that point
> it's actually a real pleasure to use.
>
> > and this gives me a further thought..
> > all thoughts of apple being a "closed" system vis-a-vis hardware changes
and
> > plug and play aside, it occures to me to wonder if anyone has
cross-compiled
> > or transported the Mac OS-X to an intel platform..
>
> That day is probably coming, although Apple seems to be primarily a
> hardware vendor so it would not be in their best interests to promote
> that. It would be nice to see them put some pressure on ms tho, heh..
> If I could have a Thinkpad with their os on it that would definitely
> be the best of both worlds.
>
> Billy Y..
>
>
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