OT: RE: Apple Goes Intel...

[John Allain]

> I don't understand the people that are bitching about Apple 
> giving up the "secret sauce" that makes the Mac unique.  The
> secret sauce is MacOS, and they're not giving that up.  To a
> normal user, the brand name of the CPU inside the box makes
> no difference.

Look at all the proprietary HW+OS companies that have split the
issue later, but...

#1 Pre-Historians here seem to say that the granddaddy of the PC
was a buggy 8086 on a buggy motherboard, other sources rave
at the granddad of the G5, the 68000, for its cleanliness.  Is there
little real quality distinction now after all these years or is bugginess 
just a non-issue?  I'm saying the loss of the G'n(n=2..5) is a real loss.

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#2 Are there No books on the bugginess of the PC architecture?
I just read a sentence on DEC begrudgingly making 
'bug for bug copies of the PC', and there's raving here but No books?
I'd settle for a good chapter or two.

John A.
Sounds like trolling, not meant to be.