[Ham-Mac] MacOS X x86 Intel Support

[David Kelly]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 06:12:39AM -0400, Richard Rucker wrote:
> 
> 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.

http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/06/07/oranges/index.php says,
> Apple did not specify which Intel chips it plans to use in its
> Macintosh computers starting next year, but an Intel spokesman
> confirmed the chips will use the x86 architecture. Apple demonstrated
> Mac OS X running on a 3.6GHz Pentium 4 processor during Jobs. keynote
> at the Moscone Convention Center Monday.

I do not expect Apple will offer broad "PC Compatible" support. But I do
expect PC clone makers are drooling and will tweak whatever necessary to
be MacOS X compatible.

-- 
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly at HiWAAY.net
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