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- From: coolidge@sirius.aux.apple.com (John L. Coolidge)
- Subject: Re: Farewell to the Mac? (not flame)
- Sender: news@times.aux.apple.com (News Subsystem)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.224857.11857@times.aux.apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 22:48:57 GMT
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- References: <1992Nov17.193022.44891@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <terjer-181192084445@majestix.ifi.unit.no> <1992Nov18.214939.3440@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
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- hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades) writes:
- >terjer@ifi.unit.no (Terje Rydland) writes:
- >>This will run on faster machines (RISC instead of CISC). At some point
- >>the CISC (680x0) based machines will not be able to run the latest
- >>improvements (like Casper f.inst.).
-
- > This just ins't true. In fact, all of the improvements you mention
- >above are slated to be run on the current line '040 macs, and also on
- >the new line of '060 macs that will be introduced in the next couple of
- >years. And the idea that an '040 or '060 can't run Casper is ludicrous.
- >Casper is being developed for the Mac, not the PowerPC. They are
- >differnet things.
-
- Yes and no. The PowerPC family _are_ Macs. The idea is that anything
- that runs on the current Mac line will run on the PowerPC Macintosh
- (at speeds similar to the current high-end Macintosh machines). In
- addition, native PowerPC applications will run much faster than
- anything in the current line.
-
- >>This doesn't mean that the old Macs will be unusable. System 7.1 is
- >>constructed so that to add functionality you just drop a new extension
- >>on the System folder (like QuickDraw GX etc)
-
- > What about System 8 and the new MicroKernal that is being developed?
- >If Macs are going to be phased out, then why would Apple spend so much
- >time and money on developing new system software for them. The system
- >software for the PowerPC is being developed by Taligent.
-
- This is Just Plain Wrong (TM). There is no single thing which is "the
- system software for the PowerPC". There will be at least three
- operating systems for the PowerPC:
- 1) The Macintosh OS
- 2) PowerOpen (A/UX 4.0 aka Unix)
- 3) TaligentOS
- The first should be available when the first PowerPC Macintosh systems
- ship; the second at or around that point. The third is probably a
- couple years away according to public statements made by Taligent.
-
- > PowerPC machines will not be Macs, they will be PowerPCs. This has
- >been stated more than once. The current target for the RISC based
- >machines is the workstation market currently dominated by Sun, but there
- >will continue to be a need for business level PCs for quite some time,
- >and as long as that need exists, I expect there will be Macs to be
- >purchaced.
-
- If it's been stated more than once, the people who stated it weren't
- paying attention. The PowerPC machines _will be Macintoshes_. They
- will be marketed across the spectum of the current Macintosh line
- (everything from cheap consumer-level machines to business-level
- machines to workstations to portables).
-
- All of this is based on public information and things in trade
- reports; I'm not releasing any inside information...
-
- --John
-
- It must be really nice to not let knowledge get in your way.
- -- Anne Archer, _Narrow_Margin_
-
- +++John L. Coolidge++++++++++++++++coolidge@apple.com+++++++++++++++++++++++
- I speak for myself, not for Apple Computer. Copyright 1992 John L. Coolidge.
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