Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 10th Jun 2008 22:27 UTC
At the Worldwide Developer Conference currently underway in San Fransisco, Apple unveiled some of the new features coming in Mac OS X Server 10.6, Snow Leopard. Of course the new release gets the same improvements as the client version, but in addition to those, there are a few server-specific features underway too.
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It's likely the PowerPC G5 series are the last of the PowerPC machines to be supported, even if they can't support the full 64-bit address space.
The PowerPC 970 (G5 in Apple parlance) does support both 32-bit and 64-bit Power ISA, so there shouldn't be any technical reasons why they couldn't. Supporting both 32-bit and 64-bit is actually quite a bit simpler on the 970, as it is able to switch between those modes on the fly.
Plus, 10.5 all ready supports a 64-bit Power runtime for userland, and so 10.6 just seems to be bringing 64-bit to the kernel as well.
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It's likely the PowerPC G5 series are the last of the PowerPC machines to be supported, even if they can't support the full 64-bit address space.
It's likely the PowerPC G5 series are the last of the PowerPC machines to be supported, even if they can't support the full 64-bit address space.
The PowerPC 970 (G5 in Apple parlance) does support both 32-bit and 64-bit Power ISA, so there shouldn't be any technical reasons why they couldn't. Supporting both 32-bit and 64-bit is actually quite a bit simpler on the 970, as it is able to switch between those modes on the fly.
Plus, 10.5 all ready supports a 64-bit Power runtime for userland, and so 10.6 just seems to be bringing 64-bit to the kernel as well. "
Yes, the 970 and 970FX support both ISAs but they also support a 42-bit address space.
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2006-01-23
It's likely the PowerPC G5 series are the last of the PowerPC machines to be supported, even if they can't support the full 64-bit address space.
They probably won't answer the question until the last minute when they learn it for themselves.