[rescue] Mac Hints needed

Phil Stracchino alaric at caerllewys.net
Tue Nov 4 21:13:06 CST 2003


On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 02:29:36AM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, James Birdsall wrote:
> > A genuine question: why did Apple go to so much trouble to make sure that
> > Macs can't boot anything but MacOS?
> > Trying to make this make sense and failing... :/
> 
> Never attribute to malice that which may be explained by insufficient
> computing resources. ;)

Well, while this is true, it doesn't in itself excuse perpetuating the
shortcoming long after the original reasons for it have ceased to exist.
(See also MacOS network device autoselection.)


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