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Okay lets talk computers. Or more specifically the misleading naming and wording in mainstream tech talk.

Macs are PC's.

That's right, I thed it, I thed it!

PC stands for Personal Computers...so therefore an Apple Mac...is...a PC.

Mac org users, I know it's a hard concept to grasp...but yes, it is what it is.

I'm going to refer to my Mac as a PC from now on. Please, join me in calling it what it is. A PC.

Now, another missunderstood tech word is...the .com.

.COM stands for COMmerce...that's right commerce.

Not COMmunication...not COMputer...COOOMMMerce.

That is all. Buhbuy.







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[This message was edited Wed Nov 6 22:17:27 PST 2002 by FlyingCloudPassenger]

.com means Commercial organization.

Wolf said:

Same thing, but...then it would be .comorg

Wow!

FlyingCloudPassenger said:

Not literally tho.

Not really. In common parlance "PC" refers "IBM compatible PC" or "x86 architecture PC". The phrase "PC" has had its meaning refined through usage.

Weren't there Macs called Power PC's?

Tom said:

Yup, all modern Apple computers use PPC processors (PowerPC, manufactured usually by Motorola and IBM). The early PPC based Macs (when there was a big exodus from 68000 based Macs to PPC based) were branded as "PowerPC enabled". Naturally enough the 68K versions of Mac software wouldn't run on PPC based Macs so it was important to know the difference.

You can run PPC versions of operating systems such as Linux and FreeBSD on a modern Apple Mac beautifully. My iMac was a great little Linux box, and my friends all run their iBooks with Linux as their main OS.

Well my PC runs OS 9.2.2 fantastically. And going to install Mac OS X Jaguar into my PC very soon!






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[This message was edited Thu Nov 7 11:38:15 PST 2002 by FlyingCloudPassenger]

And there are versions of OS X that are x86 compatible as Darwin (a form of UNIX derivative) the operating system from which OS X stems was intended as a crossplatform os

So ther isn't that much difference, there is just a enough to make them distinct enough

servantsofpuas said:

OS X on x86?! I don't think so...

teller said:

It's rumoured to be there in some form or another. the core of OS X is based on Darwin which has a BSD based kernel which is based on NeXT which was an intended crossplatform OS developed by Steve Jobbs former company. The same Jobbs who is now Apple's Boss. the Macintosh translations are Only a sub unit of the OS as is Java and there was up until late in the project a parallel x86 program

Yes you can compile Darwin for x86, I've done it so nyah!
Not a lot you can do with it though, without all the other components of Mac OS X. Still though, it shows that putting Mac OS on an x86 box is within the realms possibility

Wow, hey guys, enjoying the all the deep tech talk! Keep it going!

I miss Be OS, can I still use it via Virtual PC running Windows XP?

That was a killer OS, Be OS!