Re: TI-H: This is for you robert
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Re: TI-H: This is for you robert
>If Microsoft supported Rhaspody, they'd lose out in the OS market...are
>you sure about this?
Yes. If micorosft supported rasphody then they wouldn't have to make an OS
for intel. They have to support an OS for an intel chip or else the
justice guys will get mad.
Microsoft supports various platforms, but not other
>OSs (with the exception of MacOS--can't piss off the Justice Department
>too much!). Microsoft is planning to release NT5 for the Intel, Alpha,
>and the Mac 750 chips.
The 750 isnt a 'mac' chip.
On the other hand, Intel will be (fairly?) soon
>releasing the Merced chip which is a fundamental shift from CISC to RISC
>architecture. Moving away from the rather shakey x86 CISC line, should
>put them head-to-head with other RISC based chip manufacturers.
and allowing an OS to be rewriten and emulators for CISC software to be
devolped! They are going to be too late.
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