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Dan Pop wrote:

> You mean that Apple programmers are so incompetent that they're not able
> to write code which can be easily migrated from one hardware platform
> to another?  Linux was ported to a bunch of platforms and Apple is porting
> it now to the PMac (they don't even seem to wait for the PPCP).  If this
> was possible (so easily) with Linux (or *BSD), why do you think it would
> be so difficult with software written by Apple's professional programmers.

And NT was ported even faster than Linux to PowerPC. I think Motorola 
basically did most of the port in a couple of months (with some help from
Microsoft and IBM).
 
> >I'm not saying that makes it all right, just that I'm not really
> >surprised it took that long to get PMT on a Mac.  But I do wonder why
> >Windows users haven't been able to enjoy PMT until the hybrid form of
> >Win95 came out.  Microsoft doesn't exactly have to deal with radically
> >changing hardware, you know.
> 
> Windows users had the choice between at least a dozen of OS's with PMT.
> They could even run their Windows apps in a PMT environment, at least on
> OS/2 and SCO.  The PMac users had MacOS as their only option.  Can you see
> the difference?

Don't forget NT, the most robust windows system from Mircosoft. It's a great
option for both professionals and home users, who wants stability and other
features such as multiple user profiles.
 
For the more knowledgeble persons You also has a hole range of Unixes (almost
all unices is avaible in x86 versions), Plan 9, GEOS etc etc.

I don't think You can find a platform with more OS options than Intel x86
based PCs.

m a r t i n  n

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