Tim,
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Tim Jenness wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Norman Gray wrote:
>
> > Just out of curiosity, what's the issue here? I (naively) thought that
> > one of the big things about 10.4 was that it was a 64-bit OS, finally
> > taking advantage of the 64-bit hardware.
> You can build 64 bit apps just so long as all your libraries have been
> built as 64 bit libraries.
Ah, got you. It seems a bit odd for Apple not to ship everything
64-bit, but I imagine there's some depressingly sensible reason for it.
> The problem is that Apple X11 is not 64bit, and in fact none of the
> libraries associated with graphics are.
Weird.
> So Tiger does support 64bit from the marketting stand point but not from
> the usability standpoint.
Hrumph. It might be the sort of thing that'll be fixed in some
SoftwareUpdate or other.
See you,
Norman
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