Re: OT: Re: it's all true
Re: OT: Re: it's all true
- Subject: Re: OT: Re: it's all true
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:54:15 -0500
- Thread-topic: OT: Re: it's all true
On 6/15/05 03:10, "Emile Schwarz" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> What I fear is that Apple goes 'one step too far'. For me, it is not only a
> matter of Intel but ...
>
> how many line of 68K code was in the last Mac OS for PPC ?
In OS X outside of Classic? None.
> how hard was the 68K to PPC transition ?
Much harder than this will be since the OS at the time was mostly emulated.
> how hard was the PPC go G3, G4, G5 transition ?
60X to G3? Easy. The G4/G5 issues were based around altivec. If you didn't
need it, it just ran. If you did, then you had some extra work.
>
> so now the question is:
>
> are the software sales worth the development cost for the transition from Mac
> OS
> X for PowerPC processors to the Pentium IV / Intel processors ?
Software sales go up and down on a dozen factors. The question is more
correctly: Is it worth it to cleave to a moribund PPC roadmap for the sake
of history?
>
> Do you remember Borland talks when Apple introduce the PowerPC (yeah, back in
> the early 90s) ? An we do not saw a single application from Borland.
They weren't the only one, Dragon made many statements at a WWDC about
Dragon Dictate. Never happened. Of course, you did see dev tools on OS X
from Borland, so in a sense it did happen.
>
> So people (sorry, companies) who said "We will be there" can change their
> mind.
> Actually, I do not care about QuarkXPress, PhotoShop, Illustrator, PageMaker
> (dead ?), InDesign (still there ?) and all of those very expensive software.
> Bu
> I am not the Apple Macintosh Computing market. Here the problem lies.
>
> Well, we have at least a year to date to wait and we will know.
That can happen without Intel at all. It can happen for reasons Apple can do
nothing about. Intel doesn't change that.
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