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> we should be coming up on a new chip for the Mac pretty soon, and if history is any guide, we may also be upon a brand new OS. If anything, I would interpret
by drb91 8y ago
> we should be coming up on a new chip for the Mac pretty soon, and if history is any guide, we may also be upon a brand new OS.
If anything, I would interpret this to mean that a new OS is further off than the chip--the transition from 68k to PPC was not accompanied by a major OS change; that came with OSX several years later. Same with the transition from PPC to x86: snow leopard was notoriously "boring", and we're still on an os distinctly similar to snow leopard.
Meanwhile, both iOS and ARM were borne out of necessity. I'm not sure how to figure them into predictions of the future here.
- linguae 8y agoIt's possible for a hypothetical transition from x86 to a new architecture to be accompanied with an OS change. Had Pink/Taligent been completed as originally planned, then the transition from the 68k to the PowerPC would have been accompanied by a transition from System 7 to Pink/Taligent. Part of the reason that IBM got involved with the development of Taligent was the AIM (Apple/IBM/Motorola) alliance, which was formed in 1991 and led to the PowerPC transition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taligent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taligent Unfortunately the development efforts of Taligent failed, which led to the equally-doomed Copland project, which led to Apple's purchase of NeXT. This saga lasted around a decade.
- drb91 8y agoHey, great info! Wasn't aware of that, and it definitely changes the substance of my comment above.