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Originally posted by alanmac:

Would you not say that despite the problems that happened during the various transitions from 680x0 to Power PC and from System 9 to OSX that these changes has advanced Apple and its operating systems?

Where do you think Apple would be now if it had remained with using 680x0 processors or an operating system based around and up to OS9?

That's simply an unanswerable question, because once Apple made the decision to jump from the 680x0 to the PowerPC and from System 9 to OS X, it slammed the door further developments along those lines. Who knows how System 9 would have evolved had Apple thrown all the money and resources it threw at OS X into modernizing System 9 instead of porting NeXTstep? (FWIW, the Commodore Amiga, which was also based on the 680x0 platform, had preemptive multitasking and protected memory in 1988?almost a full year before Apple came out with the SE/30?so it's not like implementing them was some great technical feat.) Where would the 680x0 architecture be today had Apple pushed Motorola to develop a RISC chip based on the 68k instruction set, much as Intel did in transitioning from the '486 to the P5, instead of building a new chip from the ground up?

[ 06-13-2005, 09:06 PM: Message edited by: mclaugh ]

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My take is that Apple will not be burdened with the Legacy PC architecture issues and therefore be able to max the chipset for specific markets like publishing, graphics, video, engineering, and scientific.

Apple is the only PC company left standing that designs engineers,& builds its own hardware & software giving Apple a huge advantage. A long history of experience with change and transitions is icying on the cake. Also we can look forward to more HP/Apple product developments. Somehow I do not see IBM taking this 'good news' without making a show of force.

This may stimulate a quantum leap in everyone's thinking.

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