[Ti] Apple's True Market Share!

[Loren Schooley]

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.