Brad,
On 2004 Nov 30 , at 18.49, Brad Cavanagh wrote:
>> I found <http://www.netneurotic.de/mac/powerpc.html>, which seems to
>> confirm this. It seems that 'G5' refers to a PPC970, and 'G4' to any
>> of a number of PPC chips, all of which are 32-bit.
>
> However, there's a whole kettle of fish waiting to be opened up here,
> since OS X
> isn't a 64-bit operating system, so you can't take full advanatage of
> the
> 64-bitness of the G5. You would need to build some flavour of Linux to
> get a
> proper 64-bit OS running on the G5.
OSX 10.4 (`Tiger') is to be 64-bit.
And looks whizzy... <http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/>
Ermmmm, David.... Since the project got Al and me the G4 laptops,
should we think of buying 10.4 when it comes out, real-soon-now? We do
of course have a terrible obligation to keep up-to-date with these
things, non?
See you,
Norman
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