On Jun 11, 2009, at 11:47 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
> > > On Jun 10, 2009, at 9:23 PM, tortoise wrote: > >> Also, the POWER architecture is not going away in the least despite >> Apple being against it. > > Apple did not abandon the PowerPC...the PowerPC makers abandoned > Apple, in favor of those game consoles and high end servers (IBM) and > automobiles (The Chipmaker Formerly Known As Motorola). > > That's got nothing to do with them being PowerPC and everything to do > with their ability to be radiation hardened. And space probes are > still pretty evenly split between the PPC and 80486 and early Pentium > classes (I've got a friend whose done programming for multiple space > probes, including the oven code for the Mars Polar Lander. A constant > headache is switching Endians, even between parts of the same probe.) > > -- > Bruce Johnson > University of Arizona > College of Pharmacy > Information Technology Group > Appreciate your info on Apple's switch to Intel. I do believe they were derelict, however, in the breadth of their pre-introduction information concerning the switch. I had three to four thousand dollars in applications that were disabled (almost) by the change. I purchased my Intel iMac at an Apple store and when I questioned the salesperson as to the ability to use my PPC applications, was told yes. As far as I'm concerned this was shading the truth and hiding the fact that the new platform drastically altered the performance of PPC applications. I would be interested in your opinion. Thanks --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
