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In article <danpop.824606547@rscernix>, danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:

] >Linux, and UNIXes in general, were 
] >very much designed with portability in mind.
] 
] This is false about Linux, which was designed with 386 in mind.  It took
] Linus a few months to remove the 386 dependencies from the kernel (and this
] was not a full-time job for him) when he ported it to Alpha.
] 

Misleading.  _Unix_ itself has had many many years to evolve towards
platform independency.  Linus had the benefit of all that previous
development when implementing and then revising Linux.

] 
] If I have a Mac, I'm screwed, because it's either MacOS or nothing.  Even
] when Apple will finish the Linux port for PMac, it will still not be able
] to run MacOS apps.  The only hope is the mythical Copland, although some
] people say that only the vaporous Gershwin will provide real PMT.
] 

Whoever is saying this is quite wrong.  Copland will provide full
preemptive multitasking and protected memory for processes.  Old legacy
apps will run cooperatively within one larger process, but that process
will be isolated from all other Copland processes.

Cheers,

Dr. Mel Martinez
The Johns Hopkins University
Dept. of Physics
mem@jhu.edu