Kenshin
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@Kenshin
I accept that a small amount of ASM is required in device programming (not for the scenario you said though). When you write device controllers, you target a very specific hardware platform so it shouldn't be a major issue. If generic system kernels as huge as Linux, BSD and Solaris can be written with very very little ASM in them, any other program can be written so too.
Re-Writing this very small amount of ASM code for different platforms, is not a Herculean task even if it is a RISC CPU. Also, any good programmer in 2008 should have very very little hardware dependent assembly code as C compilers (and cross-compilers) have been ported to almost all available architectures and the need for ASM is very very rare.
So I really see no point in dropping support for a good architecture like PPC in future versions of Mac OS X. But who am I to comment?? Apple and Steve Jobs want to be DIFFERENT.
Point noted. Also the compilers now are made efficient.I think the only reason apple changed to intel was to increase its sales.