On 08/06/2005, at 1:04 AM, Joost van de Griek wrote:
On 2005-06-08 3:31, Terry Mathews wrote:
Meh, x86 processor alone != PC. I'm sure Apple will make their
platform so
that normal computers cannot run Mac OS X. Replacing the standard
(and
outdated, inadequate, and user-unfriendly) BIOS with Open-Firmware
will go a
long way towards that.
There will be no Open Firmware in these Intel "Macs".
Look at the Microsoft Xbox - it's basically an x86 computer, but
because it
has an odd memory map and no PC BIOS, it does not run Windows;
But they *will* run Windows.
Actually there are currently ia64 boards that are Open-Firmware, I
don't have one but I would imagine the development x86 Macs that were
released to developers are pretty mush so plain PC. They probably
boot similar to FreeBSD, in that they unmap the PC BIOS and replace
it with Forth based boot loader.
I would imagine the actual production Macs will be OF ia64 systems.
The boxes they are providing developers know I primarily to get the
code working on x86, hence why Apple wants them back and not in the
general market
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