Re: [PLUG] <compumike:#plug> dude debian rocks!

[Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com>]

At 03:31 PM 1/3/2002 -0500, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> Rubbish. The ROM (OpenFirmware, based on Sun's OpenBoot, also open),
> and most of the hardware buses (PCI, USB, SCSI, EIDE) are entirely
> open standards, and Apple builds hardware (mostly) compliant to
> them. Hell, even the processor architecture is an open standard.
> Remember CHRP?

        CHRP died many years ago, and the Apple ROM's have many 
proprietary things in them - though those are slowly going away...

        But you are right that the majority of the internals are based on 
open standards - something that Apple has been very good about since the 
return of Jobx.


LDR


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