[rescue] Apple to ditch IBM, switch to Intel chips

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Sun, 12 Jun 2005 @ 00:09 -0500, Bill Bradford said:

> On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 12:28:59AM -0400, Sandwich Maker wrote:
> > conversely, someone's working on solaris 2.6 for ppc, with macs an
> > ultimate goal.  just to complete the role reversal...
> 
> There's an active effort to port OpenSolaris to PPC too, with the first
> target goal the Open Desktop Workstation -
> 
> http://www.pegasosppc.com/odw.php
> 
> and eventually, PPC macs.  You'll hear more about it when OpenSolaris
> goes public.

All in all, this could get interesting.

However, I'd still like to see some activity in non-UNIX systems.

OS developent seems to be practically dead, with the only existing
projects pretty well working in isolation.



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