Sealed Box Speculation
This pop into anyone elses mind yet? Remember all the people saying they had messed with sealed boxes from Apple that were lightning fast? Could it be that the boxes were x86es running ported versions of OS X and 9? Don't shoot me down because all the apps would have to be recompiled...who knows...they may have written some kind of background emulation...they did with the transition from 68k to PPC.
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[ 01-05-2002: Message edited by: JLL ]</p>
<strong>Maybe they sealed the machines because they didn't want the tiny little people inside to escape?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yeah, They bit me in the finger once
For me to poop on.
SdC
<strong>Gee, let's make a new thread concerning X on x86, I bet that no one here has discussed it.
[ 01-05-2002: Message edited by: JLL ]</strong><hr></blockquote>
yeah I know I have explained it like 100Xs!!
From the Tech TV thread in GD:
I dont think this will happen. Apps would have to be recompiled and all of the "perks" that Apple has with the PPC would be gone. (IE no AltiVec) So any company that spent resouces coding for things like that would have wasted money and not be happy with Apple.
Also, would be on par with switching from 68k macs to PPC WHILE IN THE MIDDLE of the trasition to OSX. It would be a nightmare. Not to mention the fact that going from 68k to PPC is a baby step compared with going from PPC to x86. <http://forums.appleinsider.com/cgi-bin/rolleyes.gif>
-Paul
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For me to poop on.
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LOL
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<strong>Gee, let's make a new thread concerning X on x86, I bet that no one here has discussed it.
[ 01-05-2002: Message edited by: JLL ]</strong><hr></blockquote>
I wish I didn't have to deal with idiots like this everyday....this thread is not about porting OS X to x86, it's about what exactly those boxes were that Apple sent our "insiders". <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
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I wish I didn't have to deal with idiots like this everyday....this thread is not about porting OS X to x86, it's about what exactly those boxes were that Apple sent our "insiders". <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
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But since X on x86 is being discussed right now in at least two other threads here, you could have posted it there.
He is a Linux Geek and I don't know any more than that.
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I wish I didn't have to deal with idiots like this everyday</strong><hr></blockquote>
Not very smart Spart. JLL may have two post less than you here but all his are of highest quality. Get it?
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[ 01-05-2002: Message edited by: Anders ]</p>
<strong>I know someone who has managed to get OS X running on a windows machine. The GUI does not qwork and he tried it on four machines and could only get it to work on one.
He is a Linux Geek and I don't know any more than that.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Nope, no GUI automatically implies it is not OSX. I am almost certain that he has got <a href="http://www.opensource.apple.com/" target="_blank">Darwin</a> running on x86, which it can do for a limited range of configurations, this is what underlays OSX, but is not the same as OSX.
Michael
What reports? You mean a couple of posts on Appleinsider. Its like everyone else quoting G5 benchmarks from The Register and MacOSRumors, and assuming remarkable performance f the part of the G5. All of this is highly speculative and very bogus, but if repeated enough it becomes fact. Do this often enough and you can start your religion.
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indubitably guilty of floccinaucinihilipilification.
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Watch you don't catch pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis!
J :cool:
Your opinion of Altivec's importance to developers does not mesh with reality.
[ 01-05-2002: Message edited by: BuonRotto ]</p>
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Watch you don't catch pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis!
J :cool: </strong><hr></blockquote>
Damn, how did you know I had that? A form of hypochondria isn't it?
Michael (An expatriate Scot)
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Damn, how did you know I had that? A form of hypochondria isn't it?
Michael (An expatriate Scot)</strong><hr></blockquote>
Someone from Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio gogogoch told me you have it. It's a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust.
J :cool: