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| From | Alan Baker <email@domain.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.system |
| Subject | Re: end of intel for Mac? |
| Date | 2015-09-09 15:43 -0700 |
| Organization | Datemas.de http://www.news.datemas.de |
| Message-ID | <msqcln$ob0$1@news.datemas.de> (permalink) |
| References | (4 earlier) <msq86v$cpj$1@dont-email.me> <msq9va$hq2$1@news.datemas.de> <N6GdnY9b7-eMMm3InZ2dnUU7-SudnZ2d@giganews.com> <msqbh1$lq8$1@news.datemas.de> <9O-dna4wqfUiL23InZ2dnUU7-IWdnZ2d@giganews.com> |
On 2015-09-09 22:29:20 +0000, Alan Browne said: > On 2015-09-09 18:23, Alan Baker wrote: >> On 2015-09-09 22:13:37 +0000, Alan Browne said: >> >>> On 2015-09-09 17:56, Alan Baker wrote: >>>> On 2015-09-09 21:28:47 +0000, Oregonian Haruspex said: >>>> >>>>> On 2015-09-09 19:50:34 +0000, Alan Baker said: >>>>> >>>>>> Except there's no evidence that such a change is even contemplated. >>>>> >>>>> On the contrary, there is strong evidence that Apple has ported at >>>>> least significant portions of OS X to the ARM architecture in the iOS >>>>> devices, and Apple said around the time of the switch to Intel that >>>>> they had OS X running on "several" architectures. You can probably >>>>> read about it somewhere. >>>> >>>> That is not evidence that the change is contemplated except in the most >>>> theoretical sense. >>>> >>>>> >>>>> It is logical to assume that Apple, one of the largest and most >>>>> profitable companies on the planet, can afford significant R&D and >>>>> they do provide evidence of this as well. >>>>> >>>>> Additionally, Nextstep upon which OS X was based, was made to run on >>>>> many architectures and was designed to be portable. To my knowledge, >>>>> OS X (or significant chunks thereof) or Nextstep or Openstep or >>>>> Rhapsody or the Yellow Box environment (basically Openstep inside an >>>>> application-level process, used to support iTunes and Safari on >>>>> Windows to this day) ran on Intel, PPC, 68K, SPARC, HPPA, Intel i860, >>>>> MIPS, and ARM at the very least over the years. >>>>> >>>>> Apple didn't provide a lot of evidence that they were going to change >>>>> to Intel either, even though there was some speculation largely from >>>>> some files in the OS that hadn't been stripped of their debugging >>>>> symbols. >>>> >>>> And lack of evidence cannot be taken as evidence. >>> >>> Get off the "evidence" bend. The OP was speculative based on things >>> said and supposed. You're B&W in a grey discussion. >> >> I'm looking at it rationally. > > On usenet? > >> >> They said some things in the context of pumping up the iPad Pro. >> >> That's all. > > That's not all. Words matter. Words do matter... ...but so does context. Sorry, but we disagree on what the words used at today's events signify.
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end of intel for Mac? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-09 13:55 -0400
Re: end of intel for Mac? Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-09-09 11:14 -0700
Re: end of intel for Mac? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-09 15:34 -0400
Re: end of intel for Mac? Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-09-09 12:50 -0700
Re: end of intel for Mac? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-09 15:55 -0400
Re: end of intel for Mac? Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-09-09 13:21 -0700
Re: end of intel for Mac? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-09 16:33 -0400
Re: end of intel for Mac? Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-09 14:29 -0700
Re: end of intel for Mac? Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-09-09 14:57 -0700
Re: end of intel for Mac? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-09 18:14 -0400
Re: end of intel for Mac? Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-09-09 15:24 -0700
Re: end of intel for Mac? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-09 18:32 -0400
Re: end of intel for Mac? Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-09-09 15:43 -0700
Re: end of intel for Mac? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-09 19:23 -0400
Re: end of intel for Mac? Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-09-09 16:51 -0700
Re: end of intel for Mac? Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2015-09-09 18:39 -0700
Re: end of intel for Mac? Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-09-09 18:53 -0700
Re: end of intel for Mac? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-10 17:57 -0400
Re: end of intel for Mac? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-10 17:38 -0400
Re: end of intel for Mac? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-09-09 20:31 -0400
Re: end of intel for Mac? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-10 17:46 -0400
Re: end of intel for Mac? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-09-09 17:11 -0400
Re: end of intel for Mac? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-09 17:15 -0400
Re: end of intel for Mac? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2015-09-09 22:39 +0100
Re: end of intel for Mac? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-09 17:43 -0400
Re: end of intel for Mac? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-09 15:56 -0400
Re: end of intel for Mac? Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-09-09 13:21 -0700
Re: end of intel for Mac? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-09 16:35 -0400
Re: end of intel for Mac? Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-09 14:28 -0700
Re: end of intel for Mac? Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-09-09 14:56 -0700
Re: end of intel for Mac? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-09 18:13 -0400
Re: end of intel for Mac? Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-09-09 15:23 -0700
Re: end of intel for Mac? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-09 18:29 -0400
Re: end of intel for Mac? Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-09-09 15:43 -0700
Re: end of intel for Mac? thomas.e.elam@gmail.com - 2015-09-13 08:38 -0700
Re: end of intel for Mac? Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-09-13 16:17 +0000
Re: end of intel for Mac? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-09-13 13:16 -0700
Re: end of intel for Mac? nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2015-09-13 11:27 -0600
Re: end of intel for Mac? Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-09 14:21 -0700
Re: end of intel for Mac? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-09 17:24 -0400
Re: end of intel for Mac? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-09 17:35 -0400
Re: end of intel for Mac? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-09 17:43 -0400
Re: end of intel for Mac? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-09 18:12 -0400
Re: end of intel for Mac? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-09 18:19 -0400
Re: end of intel for Mac? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-09-09 20:23 -0400
Re: end of intel for Mac? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-09 22:05 -0400
Re: end of intel for Mac? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-09-10 01:10 -0400
Re: end of intel for Mac? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-10 01:17 -0400
Re: end of intel for Mac? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-09-10 01:33 -0400
Re: end of intel for Mac? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-10 10:24 -0400
Re: end of intel for Mac? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-10 17:54 -0400
Re: end of intel for Mac? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-09-10 20:11 -0400
Re: end of intel for Mac? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-11 12:36 -0400
Re: end of intel for Mac? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-09-10 18:20 +1200
Re: end of intel for Mac? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-10 17:40 -0400
Re: end of intel for Mac? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-09-09 20:19 -0400
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