Uh-oh.... Anybody following WWDC?

[Trevor DeVore]

On Jun 6, 2005, at 3:16 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:
>> I believe you can get an Intel machine from Apple very soon for 
>> testing if you are a developer.  I thought I read somewhere during 
>> the keynote that you could get Pentium machine running Tiger in order 
>> to test.
>
> Wow, I'd be very surprised if this is the case. Not only would Apple 
> be providing MANY developers with a PC with custom ROM's which could 
> be hacked, but also you can just imagine the possibility for the new 
> systems to be 'leaked' which would/could drive Stevie crazy!
>
> I think I read on their website, they would provide subscribed/paying 
> developers some sort of ACCESS to these PC's. I'm thinking it'll cost 
> you over $5K to get such access.

Here is what you get for porting:

http://developer.apple.com/transitionkit.html

It costs $999 and you must be a Select or Premier member.


>>> 2. ... I expect all software MUST be upgraded when Leopard ships. 
>>> IMO, this is a big of an upgrade as the OS9 to BSD UNIX OSX.
>> I don't know that this is correct.  Rosetta seems to take care of 
>> running current software without any recompile.
>
> Yeah, but it'll be running some sort of morphed code in simulation, 
> kinda like what VirtualPC does...very slowly.

True but I think Rosetta will be much faster than a VPC solution since 
it is built into the operating system.


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Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Multimedia
trevor at mangomultimedia.com