On 1/21/06 3:52 AM, Rosyna didst favor us with:
> It all depends. Apple could always switch back. Especially in this
> day where Apple's design decisions seem to be based off whoever has
> the cheapest product or whoever has least humiliated Steve Jobs.
> Intel may just be temporary as they already got Jobs to publicly
> state part of the switch was due to supply issues and the Yonah
> (Intel Core) chips are already having supply problems with major PC
> OEMs.
>
> Some have even *speculated* that the reason more ICBM models weren't
> introduced at MWSF was due to a very low supply of Yonah chips.
> However, I'd take this with a grain of salt.
>
> Either way, as of the Intel switch, you can't expect or speculate any
> kind of action Apple may or may not do in the future.
See, that's the kind of non-definitive answer that's not very helpful. LOL
I'm designing a new file format and the nature of the data is such that
there are lots of integer values in it that will need swapping, potentially
hundreds of thousands of them for a single file, so I thought I should pick
the format that's most likely to be native in the future. Some speculation
is pretty much unavoidable here.
Personally I don't think Steve can get away with flipping back and forth on
this one. A transition is one thing. A long term approach that mixes
processors is not likely to go over well with developers, especially smaller
developers who don't have the resources to maintain two sets of computers
for testing purposes, not to mention any additional time required to test
and debug on different processors. Just my $0.02.
Larry
>
> Ack, at 1/21/06, Laurence Harris said:
>
>> I know this was discussed at least to some extent a while back, but I don't
>> recall that there was ever a definitive answer. With little endian machines
>> being the future of the Mac, doesn't it make more sense to design new,
>> proprietary file formats to use little endian instead of big?
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