Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 22:17:21 +1000 From: <peterg@ptree32.com.au> To: Michael Dexter <dexter@ambidexter.com>, freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Apple x86 Ramifications? Message-ID: <b658a9c1.8abc8ec.819d600@dommail.onthenet.com.au>
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>Any thoughts on Apple's announcement that they will slowly transition >to Intel processors and thus phase out PowerPC? Does IBM's "Power" >(power.org) initiative yield a viable target in light of many of us >hardware donors being unable to afford any to donate? My initial reason for working on FreeBSD/PPC was to support embedded CPUs such as the Freescale PowerQUICC. The Apple announcement means that decent same-architecture hosts will be more scarce in the future, but that doesn't change my primary goal :) The IBM 970-based blade server could be a viable platform, as could PSIII/xbox360/gcube revolution :) PowerPC has a bright future I think. later, Peter.
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