<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jun 6, 2005, at Mon, Jun 6, 10:49 25 PM, Gary Byers wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande">The emphasis on x86-32 in the current porting tools -may- have more to</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande">do with the fat/universal binary issue (having something that's</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande">ppc32/x86-64 or vice versa -sounds- like a hard problem ...) than with</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande">the future direction of Intel-base Macs.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>This may also explain to some extent why Apple have been so slow in adding real 64 bit support to Mac OS X for G5 macs - they knew they had a much bigger transition in the pipeline.</DIV><BR><DIV> <DIV>regards,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Ralph</DIV> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>