Re: How many times must Apple make such DRASTIC architecture changes?

[Tim Cutts <timc@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

In article <3gvoodFeggvnU5@individual.net>,
Ilgaz Ocal  <Ilgaz@spamcop.net> wrote:
>On 2005-06-11 01:04:34 +0300, Tim Cutts <timc@chiark.greenend.org.uk> said:
>
>> In article <3gr18rFcobl4U1@individual.net>,
>> Ilgaz Ocal  <Ilgaz@spamcop.net> wrote:
>>> We all miss something, this type of transition from one CPU family to 
>>> other has NEVER happened in IT history.

[ snipped my counterexamples ]

>Hi
>
>I don't snip anything. The computers you mention are either pro 
>workstations or servers.

And that means they don't count?  You said (see above) "NEVER happened
in IT history" which just is not true.  Even if you'd said "Never
happened in Apple history" you'd have been wrong too.  The IBM PC is
just about the only line of computers which *hasn't* changed CPU
architecture much, and even then it has to a certain extent; the 386 and
later are very different from what went before.

>Apple home computer is changing CPU family.

For the second time.

The point of all my counter examples is that it shouldn't matter.  If
code is well written, and the OS programmin interface stays the same (as
it will) all you need to do, for the majority of code, is recompile it
on the new machine and it will all just work.

Fear not!

Tim