if he wants it fast, he'll stay the hell away from the silly pentium, the whole point is that intel's risc chips scorch pentiums in terms of performance. the x86 line is on life support, the fast risc chips are what's coming next and what many truly high performance workstations use. it's just that microsoft hasn't figured out how to port windows and their applications to the risc chips the way apple was able to mover from the 68k family to the power pc. pc's have been due for a new architecture for a long, long time. as far as programing architectures, it's not that simple, especially with os x it should be much, much easier to do development for the mac. even microsoft's products that run under os 9 work better on a mac than on a pc, and microsoft uses macs for most of thier critical internal stuff, the evidence is in thier press releases done with word, they email out the word files to the press, and if you look inside the file it tells you what kind of machine it was done on, and most if not all of thier press releases are done on a mac!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 8/29/02 1:10:14 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > if apple went to intel chips, it wouldn't be the silly pentium, it > > would be some of the risc chips that frankly should have replaced the > > pentium in pc's along time ago. intel was going to stop the > > increasingly brain dead x86 line after the original pentiums, obviously > > they couldn't get microsoft and others to go along with the idea and > > were forced to continue the silliness in order to sell chips to a > > segment that won't take the necessary step to a new architecture. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > --------------------- > I don't think Steve Jobs thinks along those lines. He's interested in coming > up with a very fast Mac. If Intel can do that for him, then you'll find the > Intel Inside label on a new Mac. He probably won't use the term Pentium in > describing the processor. > >From what my programming friends tell me, the Mac architecture is merely the > PC architecture in reverse. ----------- -- "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing." - Helen Keller, American Blind/Deaf Author & Lecturer... -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
