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To: Dave Budde who wrote (137052)	6/8/2001 9:41:04 PM
From: Robert Salasidis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

BIOSes are available from several different manufacturers (as well as some of the larger PC box makers). White box VARs can create their own systems, and sell them without worry about having the carpet pulled from under them. Users have a choice of which PC to buy to run the same software (or different software - I was running QNX (a UNIX like RTOS) as my main OS from 83 - 91 (until Win 3.1) as it was able to do multitasking which simplified code development). The interfaces that all these PCs use are all the same - any hardware from any manufacturer works with any PC. Chipsets, CPUs etc are availble from a variety manufacturers. All of this is stating the obvious but you asked. In any case, there is no point debating this point anymore, since my original post was just to say that the open PC architecture has provided more of what the average user was looking for (price, choice etc), and is possibly the main reason that the PC succeeded whereas the Mac did not.