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
Where did you get your information?
Apple is not going to change to Pent. 4 X86 platform. Microsoft is switching to PPC. (XBOX) Sony is PPC also with PS3 and Nintendo has been PPC for along time. Also PPC is a lot more scalable than x86. Rumor has it Longhorn has a PPC port being developed in parallel.
No apple did have MacOS running on x86 called project Startrek.
That was before OSX.
On 6/6/05, mail.comcast.net eek2121@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 _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.com http://reactos.com:8080/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
a little behind on the news... check any website on the internet for keynote cliffs.
Brandon
David Johnson wrote:
Where did you get your information?
Apple is not going to change to Pent. 4 X86 platform. Microsoft is switching to PPC. (XBOX) Sony is PPC also with PS3 and Nintendo has been PPC for along time. Also PPC is a lot more scalable than x86. Rumor has it Longhorn has a PPC port being developed in parallel.
No apple did have MacOS running on x86 called project Startrek.
That was before OSX.
On 6/6/05, mail.comcast.net eek2121@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 _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.com http://reactos.com:8080/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
This is where he got the information from:
http://www.betanews.com/article/Apple_Announces_Switch_to_Intel_Chips/111807...
Apple is indeed switching to x86. Mac OX X 10.5 (Codename 'Leopard') will be the first MacOS X Version to be available for x86. And Apple has had MacOS compiled for the x86 for 5 years.
And this makes me wonder: What now for the usefulness of PearPC?
On 6/6/05, David Johnson davidjohnson.johnson@gmail.com wrote:
Where did you get your information?
Apple is not going to change to Pent. 4 X86 platform. Microsoft is switching to PPC. (XBOX) Sony is PPC also with PS3 and Nintendo has been PPC for along time. Also PPC is a lot more scalable than x86. Rumor has it Longhorn has a PPC port being developed in parallel.
No apple did have MacOS running on x86 called project Startrek.
That was before OSX.
On 6/6/05, mail.comcast.net eek2121@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 _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.com http://reactos.com:8080/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
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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
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@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.
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I would say it would be needed. It's a way of finding bugs that i80x86 hides, or that aren't major bugs in i80x86.
Wesley Parish
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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
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Wesley Parish wrote:
I would say it would be needed. It's a way of finding bugs that i80x86 hides, or that aren't major bugs in i80x86.
I suppose that I'm joining this a bit late, but wouldn't it be safe to assume that the more systems we're successfully running on, the better? If the ReactOS system can support the Win32 API on multiple architectures, that'd be great, regardless of what manufacturer is using what brand / model of processor.
Besides, keeping the PowerPC support means that ROS can run on the Xbox 360, PS 3, and new Nintendo system... IIRC, they're all slated to use the IBM PowerPC processor now, too. And they will be decently well-priced units, with more processing power then in any computer that I have in my apartment, that's for sure.
Also, there are people that will retain the Macintosh units that they have today, for the next several years to a decade. Most of the people that I know don't upgrade until they come across the dire need to do so.
Later, Mike
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