Re: Oh my....... Intel CPU's???

[Keith Johnson]

On Jun 5, 2005, at 10:36 PM, Kyle DePasquale wrote:

Wouldn't such a major architecture change cause most of the  
programs currently written for mac to not function at all?  If  
that's the case, then switching to an x86 architecture *could* ruin  
apple.  My guess is that they're not changing architectures, but  
that they're just going to have intel produce PPC chips, or  
something that is fairly compatible.




Here's the most plausible possibility I've read so far.


Still, it causes us some consternation. I guess we'll find out tomorrow.

Keith Johnson

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Re: Oh my....... Intel CPU's???

[Kyle DePasquale]

Wouldn't such a major architecture change cause most of the programs 
currently written for mac to not function at all?  If that's the case, 
then switching to an x86 architecture *could* ruin apple.  My guess is 
that they're not changing architectures, but that they're just going to 
have intel produce PPC chips, or something that is fairly compatible.


Just my predictions -

Kyle

On Jun 5, 2005, at 8:09 PM, John Niven wrote:


I just heard that Apple will switch to Intel CPU's for future products.

Mac OS -> OSX -> Linux

68K -> PPC -> x86

The future is for geeks

John


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Re: Oh my....... Intel CPU's???

[NODEraser]

Well, since AMD is really starting to hurt Intel in the PC processor
market, I guess they have to look for another customer base...

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> I just heard that Apple will switch to Intel CPU's for future products.
> 
> Mac OS -> OSX -> Linux
> 
> 68K -> PPC -> x86
> 
> The future is for geeks
> 
> John
> 
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Oh my....... Intel CPU's???

[John Niven]

I just heard that Apple will switch to Intel CPU's for future products.

Mac OS -> OSX -> Linux

68K -> PPC -> x86

The future is for geeks

John


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