At 02:00 AM -0500 06/12/2005, Indiana John wrote:
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Apple is going to continue to design their own systems -
motherboard and ASICs included. That means OS X is going to
contain drivers and whatnot that use *Apple*'s implementation of
the motherboard. OS X simply won't "understand" the interconnects
and controllers on regular PC motherboards.
maybe you can explain how it is that these new "macs" will be able
to run Windoze natively? Everything I have read so far says that
this will be the case.
Two scenarios:
1) Ultimately Apple bites the worm and decides to compete head to
head with Microsloth. The unique Mac hardware that we know and love
goes away. Apple goes to "generic" PC hardware and you simply
switch-boot between the likes of Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, and Windoze.
IMO this isn't going to happen; Apple would fold a year or two later.
2) Apple produces their own systems as I described previously.
They'll directly boot Linux, Unix, or Mac OS X. Other OSies will run
as a *nix process, in an enclosing "virtual environment". The
"hosted" OS does whatever, but unbeknownst to it, it's actually
calling the uber OS (OS X in this case) to do it's i/o and such.
First example of such a virtual environment is one you're probably
familiar with: Classic. It's a container that gives OS 9 access to
OS X's i/o services.
Another example is products like Virtual PC. They're like Classic,
but they go one step beyond: they also provide x86->PPC translation.
In x86-based Macs, the same products will provide the virtual
environment, but because the hosted OS is already x86, there's no
instruction-by-instruction translation required. So it will be much
faster. hum. Who knows. Apple often crushes 3rd party projects by
making their own clones in-house. Maybe Apple has such a virtual
environment ready to go, but just hasn't announced it...
- Dan.
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