New hardware specific Panther release: Tachyon

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chilleymacchilleymac
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in Future Apple Hardware edited January 2014
ThinkSecret has released an article about a new hardware specific version of Panther called Tachyon.



http://www.thinksecret.com/news/tachyon.html



What wild speculation could we come up with for a new device that runs Panther. As he states in the article the iMacs and G5's are out, the Powerbooks should be out before Panther. Does this spark a new OSx on intel debate... god I hope not. What new device could it be.

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  • Reply 1 of 14
    smirclesmircle Posts: 1,035member
    Panther server for the XServe G5.
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  • Reply 2 of 14
    outsideroutsider Posts: 6,008member
    New PowerBook? A low voltage 1.3GHz G5?
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  • Reply 3 of 14
    ipeteipete Posts: 27member
    tach·y·on (t?k??-?n')_Pronunciation Key

    n.



    A hypothetical subatomic particle that always travels faster than the speed of light.



    tach'y·on?ic adj.
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  • Reply 4 of 14
    superkarate monkeydeathcarsuperkarate monkeydeathcar Posts: 2,407member
    already thready
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  • Reply 5 of 14
    amorphamorph Posts: 7,112member
    The above linked thread predicts Intel support. As long as this thread ponders which future hardware platform Tachyon is designed to support, it's topical here and different (however subtly) from the thread in OS X.



    Carry on.
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  • Reply 6 of 14
    webflitswebflits Posts: 58member
    MacOSX embedded and a lowcost G3/G4 board?



    just dreaming...
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  • Reply 7 of 14
    rhumgodrhumgod Posts: 1,289member
    Old news...it's the G5:



    G5 benchmarking story on Extremetech.com



    "In the setup notes for the G5 testbed, Lionbridge "installed the Tachyon development environment version 6K452. This provides the appropriate development tools for generating the SPEC binaries and installs Apple's version of the GCC compiler (version 3.3 build 1379) on the test system." The term "Apple's version" is left unspecified, unfortunately."
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  • Reply 8 of 14
    edgar_is_goodedgar_is_good Posts: 30member
    Have to agree it's G5. See



    http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn2086.html
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  • Reply 9 of 14
    madmax559madmax559 Posts: 596member
    taking a pot shot here but it could well be a thin client



    something along the line of sun's ray 1 thin client

    which is actually a very nice piece of hardware....
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  • Reply 10 of 14
    outsideroutsider Posts: 6,008member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by madmax559

    taking a pot shot here but it could well be a thin client



    something along the line of sun's ray 1 thin client

    which is actually a very nice piece of hardware....



    Yeah i had a thread about a G5 based thin-client. I don't know how well it fits into Apple's plans at the moment but things seem to be moving in that direction anyway. At least Sun/Oracle hopes so.
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  • Reply 11 of 14
    ipeteipete Posts: 27member
    Tachyon- Developer tools for Panther!

    Case closed
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  • Reply 12 of 14
    michaelbmichaelb Posts: 242member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by ipete

    Tachyon- Developer tools for Panther!

    Case closed



    Well, maybe Tachyon has come back from the future to serve as the codename for another project.



    Tricky things, tachyons.
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  • Reply 13 of 14
    kroehlkroehl Posts: 164member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by michaelb

    Well, maybe Tachyon has come back from the future to serve as the codename for another project.



    Tricky things, tachyons.



    Oh no. The Mr. Fusion powered G8 thread again....
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  • Reply 14 of 14
    kickahakickaha Posts: 8,760member
    No, no... Mr. Fusion is what powers the *P*8.



    The G8 runs on a small amount of sunshine.
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