>William Warbucks Gates doesn't manufacture computers. He just conspires >with PC component manufactures so he can produce software that renders >your top of the line PC system obsolete every six months. >If you get into the miti griti you'll find most US Government systems are >UNIX based but I can understand why they might go to Macs since they >probably qualify as a small business by now. And the new Mac OS X (say "OS ten") is UNIX-based. I think this, and The Pentagon, so the story goes, ordered many hundreds of Mac laptops when the 9-11 disaster occurred because of built-in networking capability. An Apple Airport networking card installed in each computer, a base station here and there, and voila!, instant networking without cables (hard to string cables in the rubble...) Dave -- Dave Carpenter Whatever you wish for me, May you have twice as much. |
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