You go Steve! Great analogy. I think your way of thinking is a lot closer to reality than Bruce's rant. Apple would not be dumb enough to work on porting their OS to Intel if the OS had no chance of being supported by the developer community. For the same reason that the iPod now comes in Windows flavor, so will the Mac OS XI or XII someday run on Intel hardware. Joe
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Bruce, > << Um, do you all have ANY clue of the magnitude of headaches, hassles and > pain it would be for Apple to suddenly hop to X86 processors?>> > > I guess not. I'm not a programmer, and I made an assumption, which was that > Jaguar Mac apps would run on Jaguar on the PC chips, just like Windows > programs run on Windows in Virtual PC, just like on a native PC box. They > don't recode Windows programs so that they will work in VPC, do they? I just > figured that Jaguar would have to be coded for PC chips and not the programs. > Well, then why is Apple having a team working on Jaguar to run on PC chips? > Are they THAT rich? Well, yeah, I know they're that rich, but why waste the > money? -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:pci-powermacs@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:pci-powermacs-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:pci-powermacs-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lowendmac.com> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
