Monday, April 09, 2007

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Secret Feature: Beautiful Scalability?

Tom Yager on the InfoWorld Enterprise Mac blog drops a near throughaway line about Leopard in a post calling the 8 core Mac Pro a stepping stone. Here's the line:
Leopard scales so bloody beautifully

I have seen very little of Leopard in person, so I have no way of saying if this is true or not. But I think Mr. Yager is coming close to some kind of NDA violation. I wonder if this has anything to do with his speculation that Leopard would replace/augment the XNU kernel with a hypervisor...