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From: kjh@pollux.usc.edu (Kenneth J. Hendrickson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MacMINIX
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Date: 5 Jun 90 09:02:41 GMT
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In article <6785@star.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
% Because IBM, Atari, and Commodore are happy to tell you how the machine
% works.  Apple's attitude is that you are a user and you can be trusted to
% point with the mouse.  How the disk controller, clock, video,
% keyboard and DMA chips work is none of your bloody business.
% Kind of hard to write a native OS for a secret machine.
% 
% Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)

<Flame on>  /* whoosh */
This is good reason to avoid Apple products.
<Flame off>  /* fwump */

Ken Hendrickson N8DGN/6      kjh@usc.edu      ...!uunet!usc!pollux!kjh