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Friday, September 13, 2002
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2002/tc20020911_3816.htm Mac and PC: Ne'er the Twain Will Meet Charles Haddad, correspondent for BusinessWeek Is the day coming when Macs will come stamped with "Intel Inside"? Technically, it's certainly possible, since Apple's new OS X operating system is based on Unix, the software that runs half the Internet. Indeed, the last time Steve Jobs tried to introduce a new operating system, NextStep, at Next Computer, he ended up reconfiguring the software to run on the Intel processors that power 90% of the world's computers. Some engineers believe that it wouldn't take too much work to enable OS X to do the same. And that could inevitably open the door to a version of OS X for non-Apple PCs -- and the selection of Pentium over the PowerPC chip for Macs....
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