Re: Apple's ways

[wbdesnoy@acs5.acs.ucalgary.ca (Byron Desnoyers Winmill)]

Supertimer (supertimer@aol.com) wrote:
: Now is the time to jump ship to AMD.

By your own arguments, this would be the *worse* time to jump ship to AMD.
You argued that a transition is required.  Such a transition can only be
provided by OS X, and it is simply too new.  There are too many people with
too much 'classic' software.  There are too many people grumbling that the
classic environment is not good enough, and these people are sticking with
MacOS 9.  Now I get the impression that the classic environment is similar
to Mac-on-Linux.  MOL is not an actual emulator, and will not port to an
Intel architecture.  That means revolution, and that means an Apple II to
Macintosh style transition.  The only way to get around that transition
period is to ensure that a solid base of OS X applications exist, and that
the developers are ready to do the ports.

But I still think it is a bad move since it result in the destruction of a
diverse market place (with respect to the OS and CPU).  You clearly feel
otherwise, in all likelyhood because you feel burned by the dramatic
transition to Macintosh.  So I don't think that we are going to reach a
common ground on the other points of discussion (particularly on Apple, IBM
and OS/2 ;-).

Byron.