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Re: We're we the Apple x86 lab rats???



 
On Tuesday, June 07, 2005, at 08:26AM, Curt @ Atari Museum <email@hidden> wrote:

>So....
>
>    With Apple's announcement that its planning to switch over to Intel 
>chips, does this mean this whole effort with Darwin was less of a grass 
>roots effort as hobbyists to move the Mac OS over to x86 via Darwin and 
>more of Apple just sitting back and letting us be their lab rats while 
>we found solutions and answers to making Darwin more stability and 
>useable?    I honestly don't mind, heck if Darwin keeps evolving into a 
>far more stable and robust commercial version, something with the 
>potential to chip away at the Windows empire, I'm all for that.   I just 
>thought it was interesting to see how things have sort of come together 
>on this path.

I think we did *a little more on x86 than just put out Darwin
releases during the last 5 years, heh

But sure, the Darmwin x86 community helped towards this whole effect.

It's weird after so so long to be able to talk about this at all....

JK

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