[CS-FSLUG] Apple to drive OpenBIOS support on x86?

[David Aikema]

On 6/10/05, Nathan T. <celerate at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tim, any idea why they made the announcement a year *before* being
> ready to put one Intel based Mac on the market? It seems to me that no
> one is going to buy a Mac now until the first Intel ones in 2006.

This gives your developers a year to get their applications ready and
tested (I think that the lack of prior developer access to the
hardware before the users got their hands on it caused some problems
back for the 68k -> PPC switch).

> As if that wasn't bad enough, Apple said they want to phase out PPC
> macs by 2007, who is going to buy a computer that's going to be
> obsolete and possibly unsupported in two years? YDL may start finding

I would imagine that they'll continue software support beyond 2007,
but that they just won't be selling any more PPC-based Macs.

David