[CS-FSLUG] NI: OfB.biz: Meet Nessie

[Timothy Butler]

I think this might be the end of serious PowerPC desktop usage.  
*sigh* Now I must decide whether to trade in my G5 and get another,  
faster one while they are available or wait an see what Jobs has in  
store. What will happen to 64-bit, I wonder?
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On Jun 6, 2005, at 1:13 PM, David Aikema wrote:

> It seems that the switch has been confirmed and will be taking place
> across their entire line by about 2007.
>
> http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml? 
> type=technologyNews&storyID=8708805
>
> http://www4.macnn.com/macnn/wwdc/05/
>
> http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/05/06/06/1752234.shtml? 
> tid=118&tid=179&tid=3
>
> Curious... how many people on this list were running Linux on a
> powerpc platform?  My ibook has been running Mac OS X ever since I got
> it and has never once booted linux.  I'm wondering if there will be
> enough interest yet in powerpc processors to have them available in
> more than servers and other things like game consoles.
>
> David
>
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