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Subject:   Yeah, but...
Date:   2005-09-28 13:34:32
From:   leeharveyosmond
Apple has no plans to change its fundamental business model and release MacOS X for Intel machines
That meant existing Wintel hardware. Apple bought NeXT, and NEXTSTEP3.3 had run on NeXT's 68k hardware, and HP PA-RISC, and 32bit SPARC, and Wintel. Apple were busy making PPC-based Macs. Intel-based Macs were not under consideration.


There's just too much work to run on anything but PowerPC.
True in 2000. Lots of MacOS 7/8/9 code about in those days. It was hard work getting people to transition to Carbon. Even inside Apple. In 2005, people are supposed to be using Xcode and Cocoa, and for those that are, porting to Intel means finding and clicking one checkbox, remarkably like I did in front of an HP712/60 in 1995.


all of Apple's software developers would have to rewrite their applications to run on a MacOS X/Intel machine
Same again. It was true in 2000; substantially less true now.
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  • Matthew Russell photo Yeah, but...
    2005-09-28 13:51:06  Matthew Russell | O'Reilly AuthorO'Reilly Blogger [View]

    And thats....the rest of the story.

    Thanks for your insight there. I think you're right on. (Again, I was just having a little fun with this post.)
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