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--- In logic-ot@yahoogroups.com, Murray McDowall <murraymc@m...> 
wrote:
> Gswerner2002 quoted a bunch of stuff not written by me:
> 
> >--- In logic-ot@yahoogroups.com, Murray McDowall <murraymc@m...> 
wrote:
> >> At 09:01 PM 6/4/05 +0100, you wrote:
> >> >There's been repeated rumours of this recently - one
> >> >Apple spokesman even saying that it's as perennial
> >> >as Halley's Comet - but this really does look like it's
> >> >kosher...I don't know whether to laugh or cry. 
> 
> And then added:
> 
> > And I've been considering the move to Mac because they've stuck 
to 
> >their guns through the corporate monarchy era. I enjoyed playing 
with 
> >PC's, but having been given so much control in the computer world, 
> >Gates started to think it was all his. I hope Apple doesn't go 
that 
> >route also because I belive people are finally sick of Gates and 
> >Windows. He has managed to get his operating systems into 
computers for 
> >a long time now and each new upgrade has been so full of flaws 
that 
> >most users that I know are just plain sick to death of him. 
Hopefully, 
> >the Intel parts match the integrity Apple is expecting them to 
have. 
> 
> M$ bashing, while enjoyable sport, is not very relevant to the 
current
> developments. I find it odd that you are dubious about 
the "integrity" of
> Intel's parts. While their marketing has led the architecture by 
the nose
> for some years and some recent chips (eg Prescott) have run very 
hot (for
> the same reasons the latest G5s are noisy) they run code as 
expected. Most
> of the world's business and communications runs on x86 and has done 
for
> quite a while. If you run binaries - Unix, Linux, Win32 or 64 - the
> processor spits out the expected results.  As the presentation 
said - all
> the versions of OSX for the last five years have been compiled to 
run on
> Intel. This is not surprising given that the Unix base on which OSX 
is
> built is native to Intel.
> 
> Regards,
> Murray

Probably don't need to worry about fbi or cia coming to get ya or 
anything like that, just an observation of things.