Well Darwin was running on intel well before the switch happened, so I guess that helped them a bit. On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 06:33:40PM -0500, Travis Siegel wrote: > Actually, the switch to intel wasn't all that bad of a plan. > The ppc line of processors was running out of upgradability, and the > intel still has a lot of life in them. Thus, the switch was an > attempt to remain competative in the general market. > With the added bonus that you can now run windows on your mac (if you > so choose to ruin such a good machine) > That's the draw for most, a stable os that still allows execution of > all your legacy software just in case you absolutely can't do without > it. > Personally, I have booted into xp roughly 3 times in the last year, > so for me, the xp thing was only a nice to have, but definitely not a > necessity. > > However, the conversion from ppc to intel went rather smoothly > considering it was an entire os that got ported over (I know, linux > is on several platforms and it works just fine) Well, now apple has > proved it can be done with a commercial os as well. > > > > > On Jun 5, 2007, at 6:49 PM, Alex Snow wrote: > > > Kind of lost interest when they went intel > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Linux: the operating system with a CLUE... Command Line User Environment. -- seen in a posting in comp.software.testing
