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[Sean]

On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Mike Szumlinski wrote:

> Economically, it would be suicide to port OS X to x86.

It would be economic suicide to write drivers for every POS x86 eq out
there, it isnt really that hard to get it running on specific hardware. 
It was written to be portable to protect their asses from Motorola, to be
portable to handhelds, vertical, and embedded systems. As well as possible
licensing of Quartz to Sun, M$, SGI, Linux etc. 

Don't be surprised to hear about a deal between Intel and/or AMD
especially with like the P4. Since that runs on a very restricted set of
hardware to begin with and M$ is going to have a hard time getting
anything running up to speed on it which makes for great sales demos.
 
> Darwin has been
> ported already, but it is basically just a BSD shell. Quartz/OpenGL are what
> are gonna make OS X so huge. After all, Apple IS a hardware company, and if
> OS X is as good as I've seen, it will take the professional world by storm,
> and we all know consumers follow right behind.

It isnt quite that simple. There are a lot of aspects of MacOS X that is
attractive companies. NetInfo is kind of cool for large corporations and
is battle tested from NeXT. Quartz is definate plus for graphics, video,
etc. The command-line is great for developers. etc etc. It is far from a
single mode OS. The hardware just makes it shine.