On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On May 11, 1:53 pm, Roman Pearce <rpear...@gmail.com> wrote: >> For what it's worth, PowerPC is totally obsolete and there were not >> that many 32-bit only Intel Macs shipped before they switched to the >> Core2. I think you would do fine supporting only 64-bit x86 on 10.5 >> and 10.6. That should cover everything back to Fall 2006, i.e. 0-4 >> year old machines, and at least 2/3 of all Macs in use. Remember that >> many old machines will simply *never die*. They will be used for ssh >> and browsing the web until their components fail. Anyone doing >> computations will probably have a newer machine. > > I am writing this on 17" Powerbook PPC G4, with Sage installed... > Don't think I am going to buy a new Mac any time soon...
We are *definitely* not going to stop supporting PPC OS X anytime in the near future. If nothing else, it is a great platform to test on due to the different endianess. -- William -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
