[X4U] Apple's move to Intel chips

[Robert Tillyard]

Universal Binaries don't have to be limited to PPC/Intel, Apple could  
add in a many architectures as it sees fit, so who knows maybe  
Power5, AMD64 or SPARC in the future. My PPC/Intel "Fat" binary is  
880KB, the same thing for Win95->XP is 5MB so there's room for a few  
more.

Maybe Apple have other platforms running in their "Just in case dept.".

Regards, Rob.

On 8 Jun 2005, at 00:42, Bill Northcott wrote:


> ...
>
> OTOH if Apple can pull it off, they will have a code base and apps  
> that run on both x86 and PPC.  So they can negotiate with both  
> major CPU suppliers, and take whatever product best suits a  
> particular design.  That might be Power5 or it might be Pentium M.   
> No other computer company can do that.
>

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> Bill