jeb1138
Carioca
From http://mac.fryke.com/cgi-bin/xforum/x-forum.cgi?show=topic&page=1&topic=11 :
"Just received a mail regarding 'Marklar', the project which Nick de Plume from ThinkSecret (writing for eWeek in _that_ column) dubbed that. He says it's all about X on X86, but the mail i've received makes it very clear that the project group - which is _not_ called Marklar - is all about porting Mac OS X to every possible platform. Ever since the first Rhapsody Developer Releases, that group of about 10 to 15 developers inside Apple ported newer builds of Mac OS X to platforms like R/6000, Sun workstations (Ultrasparc III), sgi RISC workstations, Itanium - and, of course, the X68 platform.
Mac OS X is highly portable. It takes some work getting it to run smoothly on several computing platforms, but it's basically possible to adapt it to just about anything.
This sheds some light on Steve saying that 'they like options' and that they will have options in 2003.
Still doesn't mean they *will* choose another option than Motorola's and IBM's PowerPC architecture(s), but it's very clear that Apple could just walk away from PowerPC. "
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Interesting, no?
"Just received a mail regarding 'Marklar', the project which Nick de Plume from ThinkSecret (writing for eWeek in _that_ column) dubbed that. He says it's all about X on X86, but the mail i've received makes it very clear that the project group - which is _not_ called Marklar - is all about porting Mac OS X to every possible platform. Ever since the first Rhapsody Developer Releases, that group of about 10 to 15 developers inside Apple ported newer builds of Mac OS X to platforms like R/6000, Sun workstations (Ultrasparc III), sgi RISC workstations, Itanium - and, of course, the X68 platform.
Mac OS X is highly portable. It takes some work getting it to run smoothly on several computing platforms, but it's basically possible to adapt it to just about anything.
This sheds some light on Steve saying that 'they like options' and that they will have options in 2003.
Still doesn't mean they *will* choose another option than Motorola's and IBM's PowerPC architecture(s), but it's very clear that Apple could just walk away from PowerPC. "
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Interesting, no?