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Gswerner2002 quoted a bunch of stuff not written by me:

>--- In logic-ot@yahoogroups.com, Murray McDowall <murraymc@m...> wrote:
>> At 09:01 PM 6/4/05 +0100, you wrote:
>> >There's been repeated rumours of this recently - one
>> >Apple spokesman even saying that it's as perennial
>> >as Halley's Comet - but this really does look like it's
>> >kosher...I don't know whether to laugh or cry. 

And then added:

> And I've been considering the move to Mac because they've stuck to 
>their guns through the corporate monarchy era. I enjoyed playing with 
>PC's, but having been given so much control in the computer world, 
>Gates started to think it was all his. I hope Apple doesn't go that 
>route also because I belive people are finally sick of Gates and 
>Windows. He has managed to get his operating systems into computers for 
>a long time now and each new upgrade has been so full of flaws that 
>most users that I know are just plain sick to death of him. Hopefully, 
>the Intel parts match the integrity Apple is expecting them to have. 

M$ bashing, while enjoyable sport, is not very relevant to the current
developments. I find it odd that you are dubious about the "integrity" of
Intel's parts. While their marketing has led the architecture by the nose
for some years and some recent chips (eg Prescott) have run very hot (for
the same reasons the latest G5s are noisy) they run code as expected. Most
of the world's business and communications runs on x86 and has done for
quite a while. If you run binaries - Unix, Linux, Win32 or 64 - the
processor spits out the expected results.  As the presentation said - all
the versions of OSX for the last five years have been compiled to run on
Intel. This is not surprising given that the Unix base on which OSX is
built is native to Intel.

Regards,
Murray