| From: | amimjf |
| Date: | 14 Sep 2000 at 15:24:00 |
| Subject: | RE: AMIOPEN: VP vs native binaries |
Hi,.
>> So it would be a good idea to ensure the presence of .00 binaries
>> _now_, so the hardware shift _could_ take place later. Even if
>> some companies are not evil-minded, they could just be lazy:
>> "Our app is so big, why ship two sets of binaries if x86 is covering
>> 95% of the market? Gee, we could save the CD space and put on
>> yet more fonts, clip-arts, ads or whatever instead..."
There is of course another reason, that of backwards compatabliity, would
it not be great if all your m68k apps worked straght away on the ppc ?
So when intel dump the Intel (IA32) and switch over to the mostly
incompatably IA64 processor you just downlaod a new 50k translator and a
10k boostrap and all your applications and existing system will work just
fine.
regards
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Matthew J Fletcher
Serck Controls Ltd
NPD Firmware
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