[DM-MUG] Fwd: [MacLaw] IT'S TRUE: From IBM to Intel chips

[Victoria L. Herring]

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>Jobs announced it at WWDC. OS X exists for Intel.
>
>  From MacWorld web site:
>
>"This is nothing like Carbonizing"
>Many developers reading this news may be thinking that they'll have
>to go through the same woes they had to in order to get their Mac OS
>9 applications "Carbonized" to run on Mac OS X. Jobs assured the
>crowd that this isn't like that at all. To demonstrated, he brought
>on stage Theo Gray, co founder of Mathematica maker Wolfram Research.
>Gray said that Mathematica is encumbered by "ancient code that hasn't
>been changed since the Reagan administration," but despite that, it
>only took about two hours to get Mathematica's Mac OS X code running
>on an Intel-bsaed Mac. "We're talking about twenty lines of source
>code out of millions, from a dead cold start. This is nothing like
>Carbonizing. It's prety good when the biggest problem from your port
>is to figure out what to do with the rest of your weekend."
>Rosetta keeps old apps running
>Jobs also discussed a new technology called Rosetta, that he
>described as "a dynamic binary translator." It runs existing PowerPC
>applications on the Intel platform, he said. Jobs described Rosetta
>as "lightweight," and said "it's nothing like Classic."
>Jobs demonstrated Rosetta by running Microsoft Office applications,
>Quicken and Photoshop CS 2 -- all versions unmodified, unlike
>Mathematica -- on the new Intel-based hardware.
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