Linked List: June 8, 2005

Wednesday, 8 June 2005

September 2004 Wired News Article on Transitive ★: By Leander Kahney. Claims Microsoft is using Transitive in the opposite direction: it’s how they’ll run old x86 Xbox games on the new PowerPC Xbox 360.
Macworld Apple-Intel FAQ ★: Jason Snell knocks out the answers.
About Mac OS X on Intel, Circa 2002 ★: This post from September 2002 pretty much makes Dan Benjamin look like a genius — he completely nailed Apple’s x86 transition strategy three years ago. (Of course, if he really were a genius, you wouldn’t have to go through the Internet Archive to read his old essays.)
John Siracusa Mourns the PowerPC ★: I think this accurately sums up the feelings of those Mac users who’ve developed an emotional attachment to the PowerPC architecture.
Inside the Apple Development Kit Box ★: Just a tiny 9-inch PC motherboard inside a spacious G5 enclosure.
Study: ITMS More Popular Than Many P2P Sites ★: For a buck a song, it’s worth paying for the better experience.
Rosetta Is Based on Transitive Technology ★: The New York Times confirms speculation that Rosetta is based on technology from Transitive. Recall that the chairman of Transitive’s board was in 1992 the President and COO of Next Computer.