On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 13:33 +0200, Alex Fernandez wrote: > Steve Jobs was talking about the future Intel roadmap. Probably you > mean that they will use chips within the x86 family, even if the chips > themselves are new. I guess Apple will not go back to 32 bits now, so > I would bet for the x86_64 architecture (or whatever the Intel > knock-off is called). Yes. Sorry, I kinda wrote that in a hurry. > Yes, a "universal" binary contains code for both architectures, like > "fat" (not "FAT") binaries in the 68k->ppc era. Ok. I wasn't totally sure about that. > In fact, for Java programs it would be bytecode, which is > platform-independent; for the rest it means two binaries in one. Yeah. I wonder which JVM they'll ship. > I think Jobs has said that they will use a ppc emulator, to run > "legacy code" (in this case PPC). Apple has licensed something called > "QuickTransit" for fast emulation. Uh. Ok. That'll still be fairly painful. Thanks for your comments, I suppose I need to go re-read the available material, johannes
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