Re: Shit - it's all true
Re: Shit - it's all true
- Subject: Re: Shit - it's all true
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 14:13:26 -0400
Of course they've had X running on Intel since day one.
Darwin started out as a port of FreeBSD and never stopped running on
Intel, and there was never any doubt that they had Aqua running on
Intel behind the scenes at Apple.
This move makes a lot of sense. And it's going into new territory
- we've had PCs competing against other hardware, and Windows competing
with other OSes on PCs, but never PCs competing against other hardware
that's also based on the Intel CPU. Commodity components, so
they're cheap, but put together differently, so they aren't generic
PCs.
Although I imagine someone will have a hacked version of OS X that runs
on generic PCs five minutes after the first Macintel box ships.
Interesting marketplace, though. It'll be almost as if Dell
started shipping the Dell OS, or Microsoft made PCs (that weren't
disguised as gaming consoles). Or if Be had kept making BeBoxes
after switching to Intel...
On 6/6/05, Martin Orpen <email@hidden> wrote:
I'm looking at an IRC feed from the Keynote.
Steve Jobs is delivering the whole thing on a Pentium 4 box running OS X!
Apparently they've had X running on Intel since day one.
Software ports are stated to be little more than a simple recompile away.
Mathematica 5 was ported to OS X on Intel last week. Supposedly only took
two hours to complete.
Select and Premier developers will be given special rental terms on 3.6GHz
Pentiums in PowerMac enclosures.
Microsoft Office for Intel OS X is being readied for release.
Bloody Hell...
--
Martin Orpen
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