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From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:05:11 -0800
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Subject: [9fans] Consumers? We the eeevil empire are the consumers!
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On 2008-Feb-23, at 21:41 , lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote:

> Caveat emptor.  I thought we lived in a world that aimed to please the
> consumer...

There is a lot of PPC-based Apple gear coming on the used equipment
market. Considering the tight control Apple placed on the hardware,
porting the MD kernel bits has many fewer moving targets. And the lack
of hardware documentation sucks equally between the two platforms.