[Ham-Mac] MacOS X x86 Intel Support
Richard Rucker
rrucker at bellatlantic.net
Tue Jun 7 06:12:39 EDT 2005
On Jun 6, 2005, at 8:42 PM, Bill Coleman wrote:
> One curious nit -- no where in any of the PR material does it say
> "Intel x86" processors. It just says Intel processors.
>
> It could just as well be Intel 64-bit processors, or an Intel
> processor of specific design for Apple.
I'm sure you are right. There is a lot of cruft built into the x86
line left over from the early days, or so I have read. The fact that no
specifics on the CPU family to be used were discussed I find
encouraging. It means that SJ and Intel have at least one more
surprise for us in due time.
I read that some of Motorola's best chip designers on the PowerPC were
hired by Intel some years ago. It seems reasonable that there's a new
generation of chips that combine the best of both design worlds; I
imagine that would include a high performance-to-power ratio, 64-bit
registers, dual-cores, etc. Perhaps also some features that minimize
the pain of low-level code writers where the differences between chip
architectures make a difference.
Waiting for the other shoe to drop,
Dick Rucker, KM4ML
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