
Carbon will
not be 64bit in Leopard.
"At last year's keynote, Apple had claimed that both Carbon and Cocoa would be 64-bit, adding to the 64-bit fundamentals that Tiger had laid. However, according to the latest on Apple's website, Leopard's 64-bit frameworks will include the POSIX and math libraries found in Tiger, Cocoa, Quartz, OpenGL, and X11 GUI framework. In addition, Apple confirms that Carbon will not be 64-bit on the Carbon Developer mailing list." In addition, the readme file included with Leopard's developer preview says
G3 support will be dropped from Leopard.
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2006-10-14
> Also really... running a G3 on Tiger is already a pain.
Not true.
1.) There are 900MHz G3 iBooks out there.
2.) Tiger on a G3 is as fast as Panther on a G3 which is MUCH faster than 10.2 on a G3, which was the preinstalled OS on those iBooks. So if you claim that running Tiger on these machines is a pain, you'll have to argue that using these machines was an even bigger pain when they were brand-new.