On Friday, August 30, 2002, at 02:13 , Philip Stortz wrote:
> if he wants it fast, he'll stay the hell away from the silly pentium, > the whole point is that intel's risc chips scorch pentiums in terms of > performance. the x86 line is on life support, the fast risc chips are > what's coming next and what many truly high performance workstations > use. Oh how true... :). > it's just that microsoft hasn't figured out how to port windows > and their applications to the risc chips the way apple was able to > mover > from the 68k family to the power pc. Actually Windows NT has been running on RISC systems (admittedly the 64-bit not 128-bit new strain) for over 8 years (well I first saw it running on an IBM PPC in 1994). The fact is, however, that Mac OS X, being primarily UNIX, is designed to be easily portable and could conceivably be written as a dual system, equivalent to FAT on 68k/PPC, that will run on either platform whilst allowing the PPC programs to be run via emulation. Windows on the other hand is not compatible from RISC to x86 in any way, other than the fact it look similar. MS have hacked, botched and philandered with Windows to the extent that porting is going to be a nightmare and they will have to rely heavily on the fact intel will build x86 emulation into the chips. They may also force intel's hand, I mean the only reason intel still even make Pentium CPUs is because so many people use x86 based machines. > pc's have been due for a new > architecture for a long, long time. as far as programing > architectures, > it's not that simple, especially with os x it should be much, much > easier to do development for the mac. even microsoft's products that > run under os 9 work better on a mac than on a pc, and microsoft uses > macs for most of thier critical internal stuff, the evidence is in > thier > press releases done with word, they email out the word files to the > press, and if you look inside the file it tells you what kind of > machine > it was done on, and most if not all of thier press releases are done on > a mac! Bill Gates always did like the Mac. After all you would hardly steal a whole operating system concept that sucked would you? -- Mark Benson AIM - SilValleyPirate Visit FlatPackMacs online: <http://fpm.gotdns.com> Mac LC Central -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
