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To: Alomex who wrote (8441)	2/12/1998 2:34:00 PM
From: J R KARY	Respond to of 213177

Thanks Alomex "they kept promising Copland. Until Amelio and Jobs stepped in, that is." Russ suggests the MacOS is still evolving . I guess we are assuming that, and as your "stepped in" implies , AAPL's management intends to continue its OS ports to PowerPCs . E. Hancock also stated , while awaiting fulfillment of Rhapsody to a native PowerPC OS , AAPL would "upgrade" the (then V.7) MacOS . Your "half-harted (sic)" statement was not meant to be taken to mean that AAPL's current OS efforts are faulty or limited . Thanks, Jim K.

To: Alomex who wrote (8441)	2/12/1998 2:58:00 PM
From: Dirk Dawson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213177

Alomex, I've been working on Macs regularly since the introduction of the PowerMacs and have installed and studied each new release of OS versions and updates since then. At the initial introduction of the PPC machines, I will agree that there was a tremendous amount of legacy code in the OS running slowly in emulation. I also agree that Apple devoted an unfortunate number of engineering resources to Copland which probably detracted from bringing the OS code fully-PPC-native. (This is not a total loss, though, as much of the Copland code seems to be cropping up in recent OS releases.) However, I must point out that in every incremental update/upgrade to the OS Apple has included more and more native PPC code. It's still not fully native, but is moving fairly quickly in that direction. Native OS code was not abandoned, in search of Copland, just hampered a bit. Also keep in mind that the transition to a completely different chip architecture is not achieved simply by pressing a button. If it were, this would be a very different thread (and world!). Dirk