[G4] G5 and photoshop

[Kunga]

Mr. Jobs and a developer demonstrated porting 32-bit applications to 
64-bit in a matter of minutes during his historic June 23rd SteveNote. 
It is from that presentation that I derived the idea that it is easy 
and quick to port applications to 64-bitness. Is that not what he told 
us? If you can't remember that part of the address, I will be happy to 
look it up and quote what was said. I have the whole thing on my hard 
drive.

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On Friday, August 8, 2003, at 08:09  PM, Mel wrote:

> As a project manager for software development, I must disagree with 
> your characterization of migrating applications from 32 to 64 bits. 
> I'm afraid that is nothing like trivial, and for many applications 
> would not even be useful. As you pointed out, the higher bus speed and 
> the greater memory throughput will generate breathtaking improvements 
> that have been long overdue. The OS will take its time migrating from 
> 32 to 64 bits, just as it took its time migrating from 680x0 to PPC 
> native. Applications will do the same. The OS doesn't need to be fully 
> 64 bit to take advantage of some of the features of the chip right 
> away.
> It would be great if Photoshop would be 64 bits by the time the G5s 
> delivered, but the OS won't even be fully 64 bit. The most immediate 
> need is to make memory addressing see more RAM, and as I understand 
> 10.2.7, which will be the OS on the new G5s, has implemented that 
> feature.
> Just my two cents,
> Mel