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Apple says Panther is 32Bit...

http://www.theregister.com/content/39/31995.html

Apple has confirmed a Register report that Panther, aka Mac OS X 10.3, will not be a fully 64-bit operating system.

Greg Joswiak, Apple's vice president of hardware product marketing, this week admitted that Panther will be a 32-bit operating system tweaked to support 64-bit addressing.
....Joswiak himself says: "The important thing for us [is] we didn't want to create a separate OS that is 64 bits. What is essential is that this OS and this hardware will run 32-bit applications with no recompiling - it will just run them."

Hmm, BSD Time:

BSD: Joswiak himself said "Man! I didn't realize how hard it was to make a 64 bit OS! So, we just decided to keep it at 32 bits and tell everyone it is essential the OS will run all 32 bit applications. I mean, what the hey!? They don't need a 64 bit OS to download music!

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This is good and bad for MSFT. Good in that they still have the first 64 Bit Desktop OS. I wish Apple would have released it quicker in order to get MSFT to promote it more....