From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Fri Oct 18 2002 - 13:57:09 EDT
art..
maybe you're right..
and maybe this IS a lot of noise..
and i have no trouble hosting this discussion myself, but that would be too
self serving..
so, if you don't want to participate, may i respectfully ask that you just
use the delete key.. or add this subject line to your filter to place these
posts into the spam bucket.. :-)
for me, i like the occasional thread drift 'cuz i learn a lot this way..
if others want this to end, let me know and i will shut up.. :-)
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Cordially, :-)
Bill Morrow
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----- Original Message -----
From: "art" <art_at_courvilles.com>
To: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: buying a thinkpad without microsoft is NOT POSSIBLE from IBM
> Maybe you guys could start a new list for all the platform wars crap?
> This list is great for getting info about Thinkpads, but after a couple
> hundred "I hate MS" rants, the S/N ratio is suffering.
>
>
>
> billy_at_MIX.COM wrote:
> >
> > 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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