Linked by Jeremy T. Fox on Fri 11th Jul 2003 16:55 UTC
A recent article by Tony Smith from The Register titled "Mac OS X 10.3 Panther will not be a 64-bit OS" caused a good deal of confusion with many people, including me. It is also caused a heated argument here on OSNews. The basic point of the article is that Mac OS 10.2.7 and 10.3 are not "true" 64-bit OSes, but the article does not clearly explain what a "true" 64-bit OS is. This had led to a lot of claims that the article is false or misinformed, rather than just unclear, which is certainly is.
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Today, most mac users don't need to have a 64 bit processor.
They need a processor that goes faster. From their point a view, the PPC970 is a better (if not good) 32 bits proc ;-).
For the next months, it will be the real value of the PPC 970.
And within one or two years, the version of OS X at that time will resolve this 64 bits point.
Apple also says they use some code from FreeBSD 5, so the power users should be abble to do something soon.
Also it doesn't resolve evrything, peoples using Cocoa can already use the Distributed Object systems to make some apps running and talking between each other to use as much RAM as needed.