I don't quite understand this statement. Are you saying that the stuff that she works on a
school...(Adobe programs on a PowerMac 8600)
can be taken home and ran on a pentium machine using Rhapsody with the yellow box
??
The Adobe app she runs at school right now is written for the Mac OS, and uses calls to the Toolbox (the API for the Mac OS). If she buys a Rhapsody box, the same app will run on it, as it will have a compatability layer (called the Blue Box). Apple already switched from a CISC architecture (Motorola 68000 family) to a RISC architecture (PPC) and they broke very little code doing it, so Apple is about the only company I would trust to get the emulation right (Connectix too, of course).
And also...after she works on her files at home on this pentium/Rhapsody thing...she can
take the files and be able to work on it on a Powermac right ?
Hopefully, Adobe will port their apps to Rhapsody. If they do, and write it to the Yellow Box API, the same app will run on both Rhapsody/Intel, Rhapsody/PPC, and Concert (Rhapsody on top of Windows NT). Apps would be distributed as fat binaries, the way combined 68k/PPC apps were distributed right after the switch to PPC.
Sorry to sound so ignorant...can you help me distinquish the difference between blue
box, yellow box...red box ??
It is confusing. Go to the macosrumors page that Robert linked, and it is explained there.
-Russ |
