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Old 12-25-2008, 03:58 PM  
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Originally Posted by digitaldivas View Post
True, but OSX is a unix based operating system, Microsoft, of course is DOS. I do also think that the CPU pipes different on each motherboards.
Not exactlty. Mac OS X is really just a legal rip of Free BSD (yes, it's a Unix system). But as about Windows so there are 2 absolutely different branches of it:
1) MS-DOS based one:
Windows 1, 2, 3, 95, 98, Me

2) NT-based ones:
Windows NT 3, NT 4, 2000, XP, Vista

I don't think you are using Win95/98/Me, so forget about MS-DOS. Windows NT is not compatible with MS-DOS at all (you can run MS-DOS applications via built-in virtual DOS machine only).

And about CPU's, sorry to tell you the truth, but you are wrong. They are absolutely identical on all IBM PC clones including the Intel-based Mac's. The only difference is label at the top of the box
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