[X4U] Apple's move to Intel chips

T.L. Miller tlmiller at mac.com
Tue Jun 7 19:18:03 PDT 2005


On 6/7/05, at 5:09 PM, Vince Lewis, <vplewis at mac.com> said:

>Ever hear of the OS/2 effect?
>If _Developers_ know they can write code for one platform and have it  
>run on other boxes, what's their motivation to write code for the  
>other platforms. Soon there are only Windows apps running on  
>Macintel. Then OS X becomes an optional shell for Longhorn. Not a  
>scenario any of us want to see played out.

Doesn't apply here. Windows apps will not run in OS X. Not even all Mac
apps will run on Mactels without being converted to Xcode first
according to Steve.



Tom Miller
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