Apple’s Unique Position
Posted January 7th, 2003 @ 07:52pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Here is more crap about Apple and Mac OS X on Intel chips. I say "more crap" because I've yet to come across a really good reason why Apple should move to Intel chips (this article provides nothing new, either).
But one thing did occur to me: Apple is in a pretty unique position. How quickly could Windows be ported to another chip? Heck, even the Palm OS might take more effort to be ported to another architecture than Mac OS X. It puts Apple in a pretty unique position in the industry.
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Posted 07 Jan 2003 at 10:58pm #
Palm WAS ported to another chip: StrongARM. =) Took two years, though.
Posted 07 Jan 2003 at 11:05pm #
Right, ported AGAIN I mean then 🙂 Heh. But yeah, it took them two years... I guess I should make that say "even the Palm OS took longer than it'd take Apple to port the Mac OS" or something.
Posted 08 Jan 2003 at 5:31am #
Windows NT already ran on PowerPC and some other CPUs, so porting should be relatively easy.
Posted 10 Jan 2003 at 2:54pm #
All your ports are belong to us.