[opendtv] Re: Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel chips

  • From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 08:06:04 -0400

At 11:57 AM -0700 6/8/05, John Willkie wrote:
>For mac users, it just means another backwards-incompatible upgrade.  What,
>this will be the fourth?  Or merely the third? (PC users, going back 23
>years, have never had a single one, at least at the hardware layer.)

Your talking out of your ass again as usual John.

I am still running Mac apps written in the mid '80s on current 
hardware. I have never experienced a backward incompatible upgrade 
from Apple., and I have been through every transition. Yes, new 
versions of apps may only work with new hardware, as is the case with 
any computer. Big deal.

This is going to be the easiest transition, as everything is already 
working via emulators.

And I hate to throw cold water on your plans John, but you can forget 
about Active-X controls on Macs running on Intel hardware. These 
machines will still be Macs, just running on Intel processors. OS-X 
will not run on generic PCs, and Apple is not going to bring a bunch 
of Microsoft dirty laundry to the party. What we will have is a world 
class OS running on Intel hardware.

That hardware may ALSO run windows, but why would anyone want to?

Regards
Craig
 
 
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