[X4U] Apple's move to Intel chips

Michael Gmail mgrant at gmail.com
Tue Jun 7 07:46:39 PDT 2005


On Jun 7, 2005, at 7:43 AM, Peter Krug wrote:

> Could the old fabled "Red Box" (or was it yellow) that would run  
> x86 apps in emulation under PPC be revived?  That would probably be  
> faster but it might throw another wrench into the decision making  
> of developers.

It could conceivably lead to the worst possible outcome, from a Mac  
user's perspective: if Windows software runs "natively" on Macs,  
major developers have no reason to continue developing their Mac  
versions.

Michael

-- 
The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money  
can't cure,
Which is a kind of trouble that is even more troublesome if you are  
poor.

- Ogden Nash



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