On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 13:33 +0200, Alex Fernandez wrote: > Hi Johannes, > > > > I am totally confused on this, is the new mac gonna have an x86 chip > > > in it, or is intel going to make a newly designed chip? > > > > They'll use x86 chips. > > 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).
Though their porting documentation only mentions a 32 bits ABI on Intel .. (strangely). > > > I don't think they'll add a ppc emulator, so probably no. > > 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. Yes, they call it Rosetta, though it doesn't emulate altivec. Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
