Why's everyone so worried? It's an architecture change, nothing more. You can't pretend that the heart of soul (if there is such a thing) of OSX lies in the hardware.
Here's some things you can bet influenced the decision -
1. IBM was never pouring as much money into chipmaking as Intel. It's hard to keep up that way.
2. IBM is going to be VERY busy helping to provide the guts of, what, is it all 3 of the next generation consoles? (Consortium with Sony and Toshiba for Cell, PPC-type for XBox-360 - do they have a hand in the Revolution?). It would be inevitable that their supply to Apple would dwindle. Remember what happened to nVidia when they pushed so hard on XBox (first generation)?
The only thing I don't understand is why it's made out to be such a hard shift. Isn't this the 21st century? Are people still coding so closely to the machine that they can't recompile on another platform relatively easily (I'm talking architectures here, not operating systems - isn't specific hardware supposed to be relatively obscured by the compatability layers offered by the os?)
You've got your references wrong, I think this is a pretty obscure reference to Pro Wrestling for the NES system. When you win a match, the screen shows "A Winner Is You!"
Not to mention a green-skinned man known as the amazon who parades in red tights has a "bite-your-head" move in the game.
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Well damn - might as well tell Google to stop working on Google Talk then!
Oh, you mean just Bob. I stopped using SCO a couple weeks ago...
Who wants to bet the product they're going to be shooting for in the long term is the Pentium M and its successors, rather than the P4?
Why's everyone so worried? It's an architecture change, nothing more. You can't pretend that the heart of soul (if there is such a thing) of OSX lies in the hardware.
Here's some things you can bet influenced the decision -
1. IBM was never pouring as much money into chipmaking as Intel. It's hard to keep up that way.
2. IBM is going to be VERY busy helping to provide the guts of, what, is it all 3 of the next generation consoles? (Consortium with Sony and Toshiba for Cell, PPC-type for XBox-360 - do they have a hand in the Revolution?). It would be inevitable that their supply to Apple would dwindle. Remember what happened to nVidia when they pushed so hard on XBox (first generation)?
The only thing I don't understand is why it's made out to be such a hard shift. Isn't this the 21st century? Are people still coding so closely to the machine that they can't recompile on another platform relatively easily (I'm talking architectures here, not operating systems - isn't specific hardware supposed to be relatively obscured by the compatability layers offered by the os?)
You've got your references wrong, I think this is a pretty obscure reference to Pro Wrestling for the NES system. When you win a match, the screen shows "A Winner Is You!"
Not to mention a green-skinned man known as the amazon who parades in red tights has a "bite-your-head" move in the game.