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RE: "A New Core for Apple?"
Dear Mr Stroligo,
It was good to see Steve Jobs’s quote in perspective but apart from that I was surprised by much of the rest of the article. I don’t know your style but I can only assume it was meant to be a humorous piece?
If Apple were to say port OS X to a platform consisting of a Nvidia chipset and a Clawhammer CPU couldn’t Nvidia tweak the chipset in some way to make it incompatible with other x86 Operating Systems? Also don’t Apple own OS X and wouldn’t it be up to them on whether they chose to license it to third parties?
Given this scenario for a third party chipset vendor to crack the chipset modification and the BIOS and then persuade motherboard manufacturers to build a board that was only compatible with an OS that wasn’t legally available seems a little far fetched.
It’s one thing for VIA to build P4 chipsets with Intel disputing their right to do so but this would be too much.
Of course I’ve got absolutely no idea whether it’s possible to tweak a chipset and have it still compatible with a clawhammer but incompatible with Windows but my imagination says yes. Tweaking the chipset to only support 64 bit mode would be a useful help as well.
All the same a Mac for x86-64 be it on a tweaked platform or otherwise! Sounds unlikely but I haven’t seen the PowerPC roadmap so I can’t really comment. On the other hand PowerPC have had a poor record of delivering these last few years which is why this scenario is being given any credence at all.
Crow
Dear Mr Stroligo,
It was good to see Steve Jobs’s quote in perspective but apart from that I was surprised by much of the rest of the article. I don’t know your style but I can only assume it was meant to be a humorous piece?
If Apple were to say port OS X to a platform consisting of a Nvidia chipset and a Clawhammer CPU couldn’t Nvidia tweak the chipset in some way to make it incompatible with other x86 Operating Systems? Also don’t Apple own OS X and wouldn’t it be up to them on whether they chose to license it to third parties?
Given this scenario for a third party chipset vendor to crack the chipset modification and the BIOS and then persuade motherboard manufacturers to build a board that was only compatible with an OS that wasn’t legally available seems a little far fetched.
It’s one thing for VIA to build P4 chipsets with Intel disputing their right to do so but this would be too much.
Of course I’ve got absolutely no idea whether it’s possible to tweak a chipset and have it still compatible with a clawhammer but incompatible with Windows but my imagination says yes. Tweaking the chipset to only support 64 bit mode would be a useful help as well.
All the same a Mac for x86-64 be it on a tweaked platform or otherwise! Sounds unlikely but I haven’t seen the PowerPC roadmap so I can’t really comment. On the other hand PowerPC have had a poor record of delivering these last few years which is why this scenario is being given any credence at all.
Crow
