So were the Morph OS folks wrong all along?

[bloodline]

So, riddle me this.  What is so 'custom' about the 'custom' chipsets.  It seems to me that they were more 'proprietary' than anything else.  It seems that the only reason that they were called 'custom' was because the were not general purpose cpus, but chips designed around their task.

If that is the reason for them being called 'custom', then every PC in my house has 'custom' chipsets made by nVidia, Intel, or AMD.

Custom chips are designed by a company for a specific product, the alternative is "off the shelf", where a company buys in chips designed by another company.

The Amiga's chipset was custom designed for the Amiga, it's CPU was an off-the-shelf part made by Motorolla for general sale.

[bloodline]

Interestingly I don't think of the Machines that we now call Macintosh as the same machines from the past. I thought MacOS 1 through to 9 were utter crap, with hardware that was crippled and expensive.

For me the current Macs are consumer branded NeXTstep machines, and I love them

In reality Commodore would only have survived if it had become a Multimedia Card maker for PCs... It would be like Nvidia now

[bloodline]

Personally, I think OSX is a big improvement over earlier Mac OS'.
But then most of my recent experience has been Wintel based.

Of course with RIM pushing QNX based systems we may see a resurgence of micro-kernel based OS'. That approach has always offered distinct advantages. OS9 and RTOS (for DVI players) were micro-kernal based as is MorphOS.

Did you know, MacOSX is based on the Mach microkernel? Wikipedia it

[bloodline]

Absolutely behind the times. No SMP, OpenGL isn't fully supported, Flash support sucks.

I thought you were talking about my iPhone 3G there **Hurry up Apple!!! I want a new phone **