apple moving to x86

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 07:48:13PM -0400, James Bowman Sineath, III wrote:

> necessary boots into some virtual environment. But Mathmatica was
> recompiled in XCode in 2 hours!

Note that this factoid is possibly a cheat, since Mathematica
*already* runs on x86 in several OSes, and is *already* ported to
something like 8 architecures and a dozen OSes.  It's a cool sound
bite, but unlikely to be representative.  If your code is
non-portable, there's no magical way to fix that.

Kris

> So, it won't take long for companies
> to release Mac/Intel software because the recompile is effortless
> since Mac has been secretly working this for 5 years.
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