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Subject: Re: Why there is no good commercial programs for OS/X ?

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 19:59:40 10/11/02

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On October 11, 2002 at 12:31:20, George Sobala wrote:

>On October 11, 2002 at 10:00:30, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>
>>
>>OK, so I really need to put my hands on a Mac myself. I will not send my sources
>>to anybody! :)
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>>    Christophe
>
>Oh - you MUST buy yourself a Mac. You like Linux now - well, I guarantee that
>you will fall in love with OS/X.


I would not say I like Linux that much. It's still a little bit too difficult.

But I know this will be my system in the future. It does not have the down sides
of Windows (proprietary system which only goal is to lock everything to
Microsoft will), is going to evolve on many points (making it easier to use) and
will obviously be adopted by a majority of users in the future.



    Christophe



> A real solid Unix with the best desktop in the
>world on top of it. The only downside is the relatively low clockspeed of the
>PPC for chess engines ! (That is, unless you can squeeze something useful extra
>out of the AltiVec 128-bit vector execution unit)



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