[X4U] Apple to move to Intel (Reuters)

[Zane H. Healy]

>While everyone is looking at Apple with Intel-inside, they are 
>doubtless overlooking that it likely  would mean MacOS X on Intel. 
>That would be to take dead aim at Windows on Windows own hardware 
>platform.
>
>Well, WWDC is only a few days away, and if it's true or not we'll 
>hear about it within a week.

If this is true, and I for one hope that it is, I personally expect 
they'll be demoing an x86 version at WWDC this year.  I'd be *VERY* 
surprised if Apple hasn't continued to do builds on x86 over the 
years.  Remember the original copies of Rhapsody ran on x86, not PPC.

For people worried about Developers, and Apple supporting multiple 
architectures, it's also worth remembering that NeXTstep/OPENSTEP 
supported Quad-Fat binaries that could be run on 68k, x86, Sparc, and 
PA-RISC.

		Zane


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