[Ti] Apple's True Market Share!

[Mark C. Langston]

On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 11:28:59AM -0600, Loren Schooley wrote:
> On 12/11/02 5:21 PM, "Chris Olson" <chris at astcomm.net> wrote:
> 
> > Paul Russell wrote:
> > 
> >> (ii) AltiVec. I wouldn't mind betting that Quartz and other high
> >> performance chunks o' code are optimised for AltiVec, in which case
> >> they'll run like molasses on x86 hardware.
> > 
> > This is a fact.  As I stated earlier, those who have tried the x86 port
> > of Solaris are already familiar with the problems introduced by trying
> > to run code that is optimised for one platform on another.
> 
> Yeah, and Solaris dumped i386 support. If you want i386 Solaris, it stopped
> at 8. Perhaps they figured out what Apple already knew.
> 

Errr...no:
http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/x86/earlyaccess/index.html


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