At 01:58 PM -0400 06/18/2005, Charles Davis wrote:
On Saturday, June 18, 2005, at 01:46 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
huh? Reread that!
The Mactel hardware will be so compatible with regular PC hardware
*at the motherboard level* that Windows will boot on it???? That
procludes a number of "lock down" things Apple could do to OS X to
stop people from booting it on a spec PC. woohoo! A boon for the
hacking community!
Sorry Dan, you just don't understand "Hardware".
All it takes is a single 'bit' in the memory map being available
(ignored by 'Windows') and you can turn on/off anything you want in
the way of disable/enable features. The extra hardware (to run those
'features') sitting there won't bother 'Windows' one bit, but it's
easy to make it something that OSX would die without.
Oh, I do understand hardware. Even done chip work, both vlsi design
and microcoding, mil and pub, in a previous career.
If Apple makes "pure" Macs, with totally custom motherboards and
such, they can make it so OS X will not be bootable on a spec PC
without extreme hacking (emulators and virtual engines
notwithstanding; eg MOL).
If Apple makes Mac hardware whoze motherboards are close enough to
spec that Windows will boot on them, then it won't take much hacking
(software and hardware, as necessary) to make OS X boot on other spec
PCs.
It's a slippery slope and Apple is now rolling down it.
IMO, this is good, +/- stockholder kanipshin fits... While Apple is a
hardware company now, IMO their future is software - head to head
with MS.
- Dan.
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