I want to hear what you guys think about this.

Ack! I've never been a large fan of Macs, but ... the first thing that comes to mind is this: Mac CPU's are already kickass for their platform. They can do immensely large numbers of floating point operations per second when compared to a standard PC, so ... I can't imagine who thought this one up :confused:

I know the Intel Macs aren't supposed to be available on the market for at least another 12-18 months.

On a 60-mile-overhead overview, most current operating systems including recent versions Mac OS and Windows (XP, etc.) actually use a unix core, so it's no surprise that they'd be able to port apps and whatever with relative ease.

I'm curious how Phoenix or Award will support the hardware with BIOS or if it will be BIOS supported. (again, not too familiar with the Mac hardware platform)

I'll also be interested in seeing some SiSoft and other benchmarks for speed comparisons.

I can't imagine who thought this one up :confused:

Here is some info on what happened from my favorite tech site:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050611-4987.html?50411


...most current operating systems including recent versions Mac OS and Windows (XP, etc.) actually use a unix core, so it's no surprise that they'd be able to port apps and whatever with relative ease.

I am aware of the Mac OS X being unix based, but Windows? Are you sure?

Slonaker

I am aware of the Mac OS X being unix based, but Windows? Are you sure?

Slonaker


Oops! I should probably edit my post for clarity...."core" could be confused with "kernel", I guess...I meant "Unix based", though - the NT kernel itself (used in NT/2000/XP/2003/Longhorn) was written by Unix programmers contracted by Microsoft and they implemented a lot of things you would find in Unix (specifics are outside the scope of this post and would take too long to compile, honestly). I don't think Microsoft would ever in a million years use a Unix kernel in their OS though.

Longhorn itself will implement a huge amount of Solaris technology and have an abundance of Unix technology as well. It will still be its own product, but, really, almost any current OS you find on the market today has features or a kernel which was derived from Unix.

Windows recently purchased licensing from SCO for Unix to create Windows Services for Unix. I'm not sure if that licensing would allow them to also borrow components for use with Longhorn or not.

Yes, what Shifty said is true, if you believe the press. Supposedly Longhorn (next years windows or whatever it maybe called) is much closer to Unix, although the talk is they are sklipping back away from a reliable and safer core since they can't get it to do all that want (lots of useles flash and graphics) and still keep the stable Unix core. I guess we will see when the production version hits the street.

Two things I'm impatiently waiting for in 2006:
Windows Longhorn to go gold.
The next chapter of Unreal Tournament.