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To: al_c
The 64-bit systems are already here ...

Too bad that Apple doesn't offer a 64-bit OS to take advantage of them. Nor do they plan to for the foreseeable future. They use a crusty old 32-bit ABI, which kind of hoses them if they want to keep any semblance of binary backward compatibility between operating systems.

63 posted on 05/05/2004 12:14:44 PM PDT by tortoise (All these moments lost in time, like tears in the rain.)
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To: tortoise
... if they want to keep any semblance of binary backward compatibility between operating systems.

Apple has never been big on backward compatibility. I have some programs left over from the DOS 1.0 days that still run on XP.

84 posted on 05/05/2004 12:58:20 PM PDT by js1138 (In a minute there is time, for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. J Forbes Kerry)
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