[ros-dev] PPC Port of ReactOS Not Needed?

[David Johnson]

Good, I still love PPC. Because it is different. The iMac that I will
be sending to South Carolina will be a G3 350Mhz.

On 6/6/05, Alex Ionescu <ionucu at videotron.ca> wrote:
> mail.comcast.net wrote:
> 
> > With the news that new Macs will be Pentium 4 based (yes, not just
> > intel, but Pentium 4 based) I have to wonder, Would it be worthwhile
> > to continue working on a port of ROS to PPC?
> >
> > Richard
> >
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> Will the gigantic PPC user base (all Macs except 68K + other embedded
> devices) magically be converted to Pentium 4 simply because Apple's
> *new* machines (which will only be retailing in 2008) will be based on
> x86? I also doubt it'll be P4 based...the dev machine is P4...but I bet
> the final product will be a desktop version of the Pentium M. Notice
> Jobs was talking about G5 not delivering on laptop and also "Performance
> per watt". That's where the Centrino 2 excells..and Intel is working on
> a Desktop version.
> So yes of cousre we will still want to support the million of PPC computers.
> 
> Best regards,
> Alex Ionescu
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