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From: Barbarossa <>
Subject: Re: "I'm Being Deluged By Emails"
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 12:13:29 -0700
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Martin Reboul <> wrote:

> > > Quite! Most of my machine comes from various Far Eastern
> > > places, such as China, Korea and Taiwan.

Barbarossa:

Apple, Dell, & Gateway (and others) all contract with Taiwan
(and others) for the production of computers and screens. U.S.
production of parts is somewhat limited - a notable example is
IBM's new Fishkill, NY plant which fabs G5 processor CPU chips.

John Cartmell <> wrote

> > That's why I use hardware designed in the UK and software
> > (including operating system.)

Barbarossa:

Like what, for instance?

"Tiglath" <> wrote:

> Not to speak of UNIX the celebrated British workhorse that
> powers every industrial, commercial, governmental, and
> scientific computer system that matters.

Barbarossa:

Apple's Mac OS-X is a BSD-Unix (called 'Darwin') with a Mac
interface.

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