From: "Richard Colbert Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Charles Martin Said: "Given that Apple has NO INTENTION OF EVER
RELEASING A
MAC ON X86, perhaps I've identified where your trouble lies."
Did I freaking miss something. Last time I checked there ARE TWO
MACS on X86
INTEL ARCHITECTURES CURRENTLY ON THE MARKET.
Dear Richard:
You missed something. Somehow, and I really can't imagine how, but
somehow you missed the fact that both of the announced Intel Macs
(and all future Intel Macs) use Intel chips that ARE NOT PART OF THE
X86 FAMILY.
Intel /= X86. Grasp that first.
Once you've got that, understand that referring to Core Duo (and
similar) chips as "x86" is exactly akin to referring to the G5 as
"68070."
It's not the same family. It's not even the same technology.
The last chip Intel produced that actually ended in "86" was the
80486 in 1991, however it is widely held that the Pentium class of
chips are also part of the "x86" family, and their similar layout and
fabrication techniques would support that argument.
Starting with the ill-fated Itanium, however, Intel has moved VERY
far beyond the x86 class, and current Intel chips (both 64-bit and 32-
bit) can no longer be considered part of the x86 family. No Intel
product I'm aware of has been referred to by Intel as an x86-class
processor for many years now. The term itself is obsolete and
antiquated, hardly the image Intel wants to project for their new
chips I should think.
And STEVE has said that by
YEARS END ALL MACS WILL BE ON X86 INTEL PROCESSORS.
This is flat out not true. Steve has said that future Macs will be
running on Intel processors but AT NO TIME has he EVER said that they
would be "x86" (or anything like that) processors. The only Macs that
have ever publicly run on x86-class processors were the developer-
only Pentium-based machines.
You don't, of course, have to take my word on this -- here's Intel's
own webpage on Core Duo:
http://www.intel.com/products/processor/coreduo/index.htm
Please point out to me the reference to x86, or its official Intel
x86 family number (ie, if the Pentium was a 586, that makes the Core
Duo a [blank]86).
Good luck with that.
Cheers
Chas
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