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- From: an780@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Travis Grundke)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Farewell to the Mac? (not flame)
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 02:10:33 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- References: <1992Nov19.224857.11857@times.aux.apple.com> <1992Nov17.193022.44891@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <terjer-181192084445@majestix.ifi.unit.no> <1992Nov18.214939.3440@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
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- In a previous article, coolidge@sirius.aux.apple.com (John L. Coolidge) says:
-
- >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.
- >Copying allowed only if attributed, and if all copies may be further copied.
- >
-
- Gee folks, MAYBE just MAYBE John knows what he's saying? <grin> I agree
- completely with John's comments, and they are comments made again and again
- in press statements, etc. Its straight from the horse's mouth!
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