[lug] optical drive replacement for a powerbook G4

[Steve A Hart]

OK..ok..ok Mac is NOT Linux...my apologies.....I just want to price some 
optical drives for the laptop!  :)

I didn't mean to start a big ol bru-ha-ha.....  hehe

Thanks

Steve

Zan Lynx wrote:
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> Steve A Hart wrote:
>> Sorry for tossing a Mac question in here but since OS X is essentially
>> another flavor of Linux I guess it works!
> 
> Err, as a software programmer that has to write software that works on
> Linux, BSD and OS X, I disagree. :-)
> 
> OS X is not even quite BSD anymore.  It's *better* than FreeBSD at any
> rate, at least in the memory map department for sure.
> 
> I have this hate for FreeBSD mmap because it sucks so much.  It takes
> *ages* to msync a map in FreeBSD because the OS doesn't track what parts
> actually changed.  They *say* you're supposed to sync just the parts of
> the map that you changed.  Bah!  Add all that tracking just for BSD when
> Linux can sync the entire map is micro-time?  Instead in my app BSD just
> gets no sync at all until the very end.  Take that BSDers! :-)
> 
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> Zan Lynx
> zlynx at acm.org
> 
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Steve Hart
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