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G5
Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2003 11:00 pm
by SystemHalted
Ok i was going through the apple site and found the G5 processor now most people wont really care but its a 64bit processor that means that ibm will release one soon too putting all our code in the garbage can(I think or it will be out dated)
RE:G5
Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2003 11:00 pm
by Chase
Not at all. If you look at the 64-bit cpus coming out from AMD they will be backwards compatible with current IA32 architecture. Besides, what IBM does hasen't had any really impact on PC cpus for a long time.
Most large OS projects use C mixed with asm so most projects will have very little to rewrite unless they are using their own compilers.