Originally posted by AdmiralAK
I think it's worthy to note that if apple went dual platfrom, then it would have the same as Be inc and NeXT.
Be made its own BeBox based on the PPC chip, but since it provided intel support people did not buy teh BeBox, and NeXT was making its own cube (based on the motorola 68xxx chip) but since NeXTSTEP was also made for Sparc, x86 and PA_RISC people just did not buy as many cubes.
The face of the mac would be lost. Who cares about software only? The thing that matters is to have excellent software/hardware integration, not like all those winblows machines floating out there
btw, I just scored a copy of BeOS 5 pro from ebay , teh CD is
bootable for both PPC and intel. I wonder if I can install it now in VPC
I wonder how the heck LinuxPPC and SuSE get away with being able to
make the Linux OS for the PPC platform and thus macs, and Be inc
cannot do the same, well any other company that is willing to do so. It is
because linux if opensource ??