The world turns backwards?

[A Black Falcon]

But is it compatible with Apple II software (like Windows with DOS)? :)

So they managed to keep software compatibility before when they changed CPUs? Interesting... this time it sounds like it'll require programs to be rewritten -- most older ones won't be! Does this break them or will there be emulation or something?

And after reading a lot on this news I found out that Windows will run on the new Intel Macs, but OS X will not run on non-Macs. Now I'm sure no one is going to buy a Mac to just run Windows on, but having a computer with one partition with Windows and another with OS X is an incredible opportunity. You can have an awesome OS and then an OS to use for playing games. It does scare me a little, though, as some developers may stave off Mac development since they can just tell their customers to buy the Windows version, but I don't think many important developers will do that and the benefits far outweight the drawbacks.

Mac OS X is, of course, based off Unix, which runs on any platform, so the theory isn't too hard to understand... it is interesting that MacOS won't run on most Intel/AMD computers, though. How will they manage WinXP running on their machines but not MacOS on Windows/Linux ones?