[NTLUG:Discuss] Mac v. Linux

[Rev. wRy]

On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 03:12, Ralph Green, Jr. wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 18:32 -0500, Burton Strauss wrote:
> > Wrong.  It will be HUGELY visible.  Don't you remember the conversion from
> > 68xxx?  EVERY SINGLE application needed to be re-written (at a minimum
>   They seem to be doing a few things better these days.  Yes, people
> will have to offer fat binaries or two versions for a while.  But, did
> you see Steve talk about how quickly Wolfram was able to get their
> software to run on an x86 Mac?  That forebodes well.

Mathmatica was a horrible example.  It was already cross platform - it
likely didn't take much to port.  

R