Re: [ros-dev] PPC Port of ReactOS Not Needed?

[David Johnson]

Good, I still love PPC. Because it is different. The iMac that I will
be sending to South Carolina will be a G3 350Mhz.

On 6/6/05, Alex Ionescu <ionucu(a)videotron.ca> wrote:
>   mail.comcast.net wrote:
>  
> >   With the news that new Macs will be Pentium 4
> > based (yes, not just
> >  intel, but Pentium 4 based) I have to wonder, Would it be worthwhile
> >  to continue working on a port of ROS to PPC?
> >
> >  Richard
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >  
>  Will the gigantic PPC user base (all Macs except 68K + other embedded
>  devices) magically be converted to Pentium 4 simply because Apple's
>  *new* machines (which will only be retailing in 2008) will be based on
>  x86? I also doubt it'll be P4 based...the dev machine is P4...but I bet
>  the final product will be a desktop version of the Pentium M. Notice
>  Jobs was talking about G5 not delivering on laptop and also "Performance
>  per watt". That's where the Centrino 2 excells..and Intel is working on
>  a Desktop version.
>  So yes of cousre we will still want to support the million of PPC computers.
>  
>  Best regards,
>  Alex Ionescu
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