09-23-2011
My first impression is that this is a good way to create a market for machines with open firmware. And since such a machine cannot ship with Windows 8, this would mean that alternative operating system enthusiasts will no longer have to pay the Microsoft Windows tax.
Most OEM's load their machines with tons of junk software because their profit margins (unlike Apple's) are tiny, so I doubt that they'd be willing to forego any margin on non-MS machines. You probably wouldn't pay less, but at least your money isn't going to a company whose product you do not intend to use.
Regardless, this does not worry me.
Regards,
Alister
Last edited by alister; 09-23-2011 at 01:39 PM..
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os_type
os_type(3alleg4) Allegro manual os_type(3alleg4)
NAME
os_type - Stores the detected type of the OS. Allegro game programming library.
SYNOPSIS
#include <allegro.h>
extern int os_type;
DESCRIPTION
Set by allegro_init() to one of the values:
OSTYPE_UNKNOWN - unknown, or regular MSDOS
OSTYPE_WIN3 - Windows 3.1 or earlier
OSTYPE_WIN95 - Windows 95
OSTYPE_WIN98 - Windows 98
OSTYPE_WINME - Windows ME
OSTYPE_WINNT - Windows NT
OSTYPE_WIN2000 - Windows 2000
OSTYPE_WINXP - Windows XP
OSTYPE_WIN2003 - Windows 2003
OSTYPE_WINVISTA - Windows Vista
OSTYPE_OS2 - OS/2
OSTYPE_WARP - OS/2 Warp 3
OSTYPE_DOSEMU - Linux DOSEMU
OSTYPE_OPENDOS - Caldera OpenDOS
OSTYPE_LINUX - Linux
OSTYPE_SUNOS - SunOS/Solaris
OSTYPE_FREEBSD - FreeBSD
OSTYPE_NETBSD - NetBSD
OSTYPE_IRIX - IRIX
OSTYPE_DARWIN - Darwin
OSTYPE_QNX - QNX
OSTYPE_UNIX - Unknown Unix variant
OSTYPE_BEOS - BeOS
OSTYPE_MACOS - MacOS
OSTYPE_MACOSX - MacOS X
SEE ALSO
allegro_init(3alleg4), os_version(3alleg4), os_multitasking(3alleg4)
Allegro version 4.4.2 os_type(3alleg4)