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To: Dan Fleuris who wrote (34187)	7/24/2002 5:14:20 PM
From: Jeff Hayden	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213182

Yes, but could they design such a box to run windoze as well as any PC and to run OSX without OSX being able to run on other PCs (and with OSX on the box running appreciably better than windoze on the same box)? Yes that is possible. Apple already uses proprietary Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) to handle most input/output functions. It would be possible for Apple to include several layers of logic in the chip that would have to be incorporated in every Mac before OSX would run. That logic could be used to enable OSX specific registers that in-turn enable Mac I/O operation. Of course there are other ways OSX could be keyed so that it only ran on Apple hardware.