[Ti] like hell freezing over ?

[Peter Krug]

Damn it Chris!  After yesterday's news, I had that same empty feeling  
I had after watching the latest Star Wars episode.  But last night, I  
got some online RDF and I was feeling better about things.

Can't we just keep the posts all happy-touchy-feely for a little  
while?  You've got me all depressed again. <hunts for Prozac>

Peter

On Jun 7, 2005, at 1:20 AM, Chris Olson wrote:


> Especially since you'll only be able to get a real Mac for (maybe)  
> a couple more years.  Apple made a complete ass of themselves today.
> As you may well be aware, programming assembly for x86-64 is  
> significantly different than for PowerPC.  And programming assembly  
> for Intel's IA64 is different again.  So how you going to make a  
> "fat binary" for that?  What's more, x86-64 isn't even real 64- 
> bit.  It's another extension piled on top of the x86 arch.
>
> And we got a translation layer (Rosetta) that doesn't support apps  
> written with vector (AltiVec) code, nor does it support code that  
> requires a G4 or G5 processor (like Final Cut).  So now what?  The  
> PowerPC version of Final cut doesn't run on the Intel Mac with the  
> translation layer.
>
> Something's really rotten in AppleVille here.  They better start  
> getting their story straight real quick because smoke and mirrors  
> don't fool me very often.
>