On Nov 2, 2004, at 2:49 AM, Rick Strom wrote:
quoted 7 lines I can recompile *Nix apps and use the multitude of free open source>> I can recompile *Nix apps and use the multitude of free open source
>> apps on my Mac... let me see you try that on Windows. :)
>
> Or you could just run them on x86 architecture like they were meant to,
> and have a glorious experience from day 1.
>
> I see your point, but...
Most (original) Unix apps weren't designed on x86 architecture. Unix
was around way before x86 was even in existence. Not to mention the
Sun, SPARC, etc. architectures.
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