In reply to your message of Tue, 10 Aug 2004 23:45:53 PDT:
| What happened to the whole stable FreeBSD platform that this OS was built on?

Um, OS X is built on an operating system called Darwin.
	http://developer.apple.com/darwin/
	http://www.opendarwin.org

Darwin shares architectural and ancestral commons with the related
operating systems FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and, well, anything that's
BSD-related. :-)

As to your specific problems, I must agree with Mr. Klos: you've got
a heap o' hardware trouble there. Apple turned my G3 PowerBook around in
about a week for warranty service, but as always YMMV.

FWIW,
	Paul
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