Subj : Synchronet can maybe...?
To   : Khelms
From : Time Warrior
Date : Tue Jul 19 2005 06:45 am

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

  To: Khelms
  Re: Synchronet can maybe...?
  By: Khelms to Time Warrior on Mon Jul 18 2005 12:45 am

 > To: Time Warrior
 > Re: Synchronet can maybe...? By: Time Warrior to Digital Man on Sun
 > Jul 17 2005 06:11 am

 >  > From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

 >  > To: Digital Man Re: Synchronet can maybe...? By: Digital Man to Time
 >  > Warrior on Sat Jul 16 2005 02:47 am

 >  >  >  > I am unfamiliar with the terms "little-endian" and "big-endian" how
 >  >  >  > going to take a wild guess and say that this may possibly mean that
 >  >  >  > proccessors are supported where as much higher end proccessors are
 >  >  >  > supported yet but scheduled for the v4 time-frame.

 >  >  > That would be an incorrect guess. "endianness" has nothing to do with
 >  >  > end" a processor is or not, but rather the order in which it stores th
 >  >  > of multi-byte integers. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endian for de

 >  > ah ok.

 >  >  >  >  >  > I think that Macintrash going to the "Intel" Chipset is somet
 >  >  >  >  >  > Synchronet could take advantage of.

 >  >  >  >  > Not really.

 >  >  >  > I disgree.

 >  >  > Really.

 >  > Yes.

 >  >  >  > The other day I met a guy local here who as it turns out he's an ol
 >  >  >  > school BBS'er from back in the day. He did not know the scene exsis
 >  >  >  > did not know about Synchronet or any of that until I showed him. He
 >  >  >  > MAC using OSX 10. He expressed interest in possibly running Synch
 >  >  >  > however I was forced to respond with "I am unsure as to whether or
 >  >  >  > would run on your Mac".

 >  >  >  > Seeing as he knows alot more about his Mac than I do, I'll have to
 >  >  >  > jump in here and make these inquiries. I have insufficient informat
 >  >  >  > able to come to a conclusion on this, seeing as I am not too famila
 >  >  >  > Macs.

 >  > ...and this along with many other reasons, is why :-)

 >  >  > Currently, there is no such thing as a "little-endian" Mac.

 >  > Then I guess at present, it would not be able to run on OSX until v4.

 > Forget the question why! If we "the pc commumity" questioned every thing
 > we did ""why?""  then we would not have this!

Eh?

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