Where do we go from here?

[Michael Millsap]

Look how long it took Apple to get 68K code out of their OS. I sincerely
doubt Apple is going to make a swift move to a new architecture, and to what
advantage? MacOS(non-X) is going to be around for sometime after X. I still
have not seen a working 'blue box'. If it breaks the OS, its probably going
to break a lot of apps.

Mike



With Apple Computers coming into the arena of Linux(PPC) territory, and
since 
LinuxPPC is playing on Apple's territory, and since Power
Macintoshes--unlike 
IBM compatibles--are closed systems, what will happen when Apple changes 
hardware architectures to a degree that the specifications for Apple
hardware 
are out of reach for LinuxPPC developers or reverse-enginneered so late that

Apple is miles ahead with their Mach/BSD/Mac OS?
See: Anyone can step on Micromaggot's foot, but Apple owns their own 
architecture.

(I'm a long-time Apple user who maintained, configured, was in charge of an
L. 
A. school Macintosh lab and AppleTalk network and also am studying Comp.
Sci. 
Working closely with Macs and trying to get them to bend over backwards to
act 
like secure, multi-user, network workstations made me sick. I also refused
to 
learn ancient and doomed Macintosh APIs and needed a more challenging user 
experience. So, while waiting for years of promised, new OSes-of-the-month 
from Apple, I found MkLinux, first, then LinuxPPC. So, I'm slowly replacing 
Mac apps with LinuxPPC and its apps while starting to develop for LinuxPPC. 
That's why I ask. Pow!)

L. S.

:-| :-) ;-) :-)
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