[OS X TeX] PPC to Intel

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 08.06.2005 um 03:17 schrieb Rodrigo Banuelos:

> ...and so the question, for those who know best, will the transition
> from PowerPC to Intel be painless, as far as TeX (and all the related 
> apps
> that we so cherish) is concerned?
>

Yes and No!

The No refers to Vanderpool, a hardware extension Intel is going to 
bring to us probably next year. It does make the CPU virtual, i.e. the 
applications get the feeling that they have their own 'private' CPU to 
which they are bound to. This too means that Vanderpool allows the use 
of more than one operating system at the same time -- no Soft or 
Virtual PC or Classic or VMware. Now imagine an OS independent TeX 
server -- applications send work to it, other applications fetch the 
server's work!

FAT binaries could be very lean ...

--
Greetings

   Pete

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
      -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.

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