Subject: Re: Apple switches to intel -- welcome to the 'historic section',
To: John Klos <john@ziaspace.com>
From: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
List: port-macppc
Date: 06/06/2005 14:40:49
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Hello,

> > last nail to Apple's coffin. seems sgi didn't want to be alone :D
>=20
> It'd have made sense to sell OS X for x86 and keep PowerPC for those
> of us willing to pay more for quality and / or high end performance.

Screw them, when they'll drop support for more PowerMacs we'll inherit
them ;)
Let's see how long IBM continues to make POWER-based workstations.=20

> I did my stint with Z80, and I like having more registers than I can
> count on my fingers...

Heh, with index- and shadow-registers you could achieve that on a Z80.
Barely ;)

> Oh, well! And I thought we were finally coming out of the dark ages of

> computing - and maybe we still are, slowly, but moving to such a=20
> legacy-limited architecture is definitely a step backwards...

We don't support any G5 yet as far as I can tell and support for the
32bit machines is far from complete. Lots of work to do.

have fun
Michael

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