New Mot Chip at MWSF?
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I'am not to shore about this one every rumor i sea is the same these days, but it could happen this time round.
[ 12-02-2002: Message edited by: Alpha Mac ]</p>
I'am not to shore about this one every rumor i sea is the same these days, but it could happen this time round.
[ 12-02-2002: Message edited by: Alpha Mac ]</p>
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So TruBlue is actually a small script that executes "bash -classic"
...and what does "less robust" mean?
Screed ...the mind boggles, the eyes tear, the washing machine goes on spin cycle.
[ 12-02-2002: Message edited by: sCreeD ]</p>
I guess that Apple could pull some new and exotic processor out of its hat, courtesy of IBM or Motorola, but that'd be very unlikely. There won't be a really new processor until 970, I'm quite sure of it.
*<a href="http://www.macobserver.com/article/2002/10/22.4.shtml" target="_blank">Macobserver covering the 7457</a>
Screed
<strong>i got a chance to speak with a metrowerks guy (fairly high level marketing guy) last week over some beers during the thanksgiving break. he's dating a friend of mine's roommate. i asked him all the basic questions regarding what he might know on any new chips coming from moto. from what he was willing to divulge, don't hold your breath. g-4 is going to be with us for sometime to come with relatively minor changes expected.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Finally a friend's-roomate-boyfriend rumor that is actually plausible! In other words, we'll continue to lag far behind for some time to come. Someone light a fire under IBM's rear -- we're being smothered under Mot's dead weight.
<a href="http://www.macobserver.com" target="_blank">MacObserver</a> got the information from a pdf about the 8420 series chip.
<a href="http://e-www.motorola.com/collateral/SNDF2002RECAP_Q1228.pdf" target="_blank">Click Here to Read</a>
Note: the PDF that the Mac Observer linked to seems to not be available now.
[ 12-02-2002: Message edited by: jante99 ]</p>
<strong>It can't be the 7457 they are speaking of because it will jsut be the regular 7455 we're using now, put on a new 130 nm-fab. There's nothing to OS9 witch won't let it boot from any new PowerPC-processor. The issue for Apple is that they don't want to support OS9 anymore, cause its DEAD! The changes for witch they won't add the necessary OS9 support to will be probably be some kind of new or revised chipset.</strong><hr></blockquote>No, they could just simply not allow OS 9 booting by changing the firmware. There doesn't have to be any dramatic change (e.g., the 970) for Apple to stop allowing booting into 9. It may be evil, but I truly think that's what they're going to do in January. Hell, it could even be the same chip but clocked a little higher, and they'll prevent booting into 9.