That God-awful cross-compiling strategy that Apple was using at the time.) For the end date, I picked Snow Leopard's release (this year), rather than whenĪpple stopped producing Power Macs. (I refer more specifically to the beta release of Metrowerks' offering, not

Tools became available for the Macintosh consumer. So why do I use '1993-2009' as the start and end dates in the above paragraph header?Ĭhose 1993 as the start date, since that is when the first PowerPC development Macs in 2006, PowerPC chip itself is still being used today in other products. Although Apple ceased production of PowerPC-based The first Macintosh computer using this processor (the Power Macintosh) was sold in 1994. The AIM (Apple-IBM-Motorola) alliance created the PowerPC in 1991, and Like to talk a little bit about the PowerPC processor, as its reign dies with Last year's article on Snow Leopard following WWDC '08 Rather than reiterate the same thingsĪgain, we will wait until its official release, whence I may devote a column to

I had intended this month to reviewġ0.6 (within the confines of Apple's NDA), but found it essentially a repeat of Leopard, a replacement for its previous Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Will be releasing its next generation operating system: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Snow Leopard: The End of the Line for the PowerPC

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