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Date:      Thu, 21 Nov 2002 20:33:34 +0100
From:      "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>
To:        "FreeBSD Advocacy" <freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: TheRegister article on Hotmail
Message-ID:  <008f01c29194$e1cd9850$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
References:  <20021121135115.GA63164@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> <20021121161453.GA69019@submonkey.net> <008501c2917a$ac643080$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <200211211053.33411.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com>

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David writes:

> Mac OSX is absurd?

Mac OS X has a tremendous amount of proprietary code added to it to make it
a dedicated desktop.  It's arguable that UNIX was still a poor choice for
the underlying OS, but I'm sure it was orders of magnitude cheaper than
writing a completely new OS, which Apple probably could not afford.  Anyway,
obviously if you add enough code to an operating system, you can make it
usable for just about any purpose--and that's what Apple did.  (See my
previous comments on throwing hardware at a problem and "tweaking" the OS
... same principle.)


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