[X4U] Re: Apple's move to Intel chips

[Timothy Luoma]

On Jun 8, 2005, at 8:22 PM, Robert Tillyard wrote:

> 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.".

OpenStep was running on NeXT, Intel, HP, and Sparc, but NeXT and  
Intel were by far the most popular.  I can't imagine Apple announcing  
a switch to Sparc 5 years from now... but who knows ;-?

TjL