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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By Jay (IP: ---.neo.rr.com) - Posted on 2003-07-11 14:52:39
>I would think there would be a pretty long transition to all >64 bit apps. In fact, I understand the classic Environment is >still going to be there in Panther. I'd hate to try and >juggle all of that :-)
I agree. Also you bring up a good point. Makes me wander, if all this "juggling" has had an impact on Adobe, or the others. Is so much transition at Apple, hurting software maturity and developers in general? We hear from the users, some of them would buy a Mac no matter what. But are developers being affected by all this Apple transitions? One wonders.
>Despite all of that, we will have >really fast Macs, which >still excites me to no end after >living through the G4 >era.
That's the good part. But I would still recomend to "regular" user to hold off and not buy the G5 until we get a MacOSX that is 64bit, with apps. If enough people would do that, it would send the signal to Apple, that they need to "OPTIMIZE" their OS as opposed to bringing Advance Hardware to compensated for their ineffiecient code. Funny that M$ does the same, apparently Apple has learned from them.
So instead of Mac users being exited about a new Zebra pattern buble theme, how about getting the OS to be more responsive and the apps to be faster? It won't happen though with so many transitions. As someone who has use BeOS, MKLinux, AIX, and yellow dog on PPC and 68K machines [not to mention Amiga and TOS] I can tell you that Apple already has Great hardware, the OS is not written to take better advantage of it. Optimization, could bring Apple a winner on the desktop, that appeal to a wider audince, not just people who paint their faces with flowers.
I know many bussinesses that run Apple, and they certainly could use a boost from a *really* tweaked MacOSX. Even know someone that switched to YellowDog after trying it, he couldn't beleive the same hardware was running so fast.