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1. Comment - Dell: We Would License Mac OS X

   (Jun 16, 2005 - 7:15 PM)

   It's surprising that there hasn't been more coverage of the history of "universal binaries." Ten years ago Steve's NeXT Computer was shipping its NEXTSTEP, then OpenStep, OS (the direct ancestors of OS X). The Project Builder app supported the compilation of "fat" binaries which could run on all supported architectures: NeXT's Motorola-based hardware, Intel x86 chips, Sun's SPARC and HP's PA-RISC. I myself used NEXTSTEP on 68040, x86 and PA-RISC platforms. OpenStep was developed with Sun and a version shipped for Solaris; there was also a remarkable product code-named Yellow Box that installed a subset of the OpenStep environment on Windows!
   
   As a result, I expect the PPC -> Intel transition to go more smoothly than most people expect.