Will the Universal Software run on original Mac??

Hi All,
Seens Apple had introduce the Intel base Mac, I'm a bit worry about the Mac software will be obsolete between 3-5 years later, without the software support, I think the G4/G5 base system will be a piece of junk soon.
How could people invest a high-end computer without software in next few year? Anyone clear with the situation?
Regards,
Goh

Apple says it will migrate its entire product line to Intel by the end of the calendar year. This means that all the hardware they make after that will be Intel, it does not mean that they will not be making software for only Intel Macs after that. Apple has pledged to support the PPC for some time, they still have, and will have a lot of users on PPC.
OSX-PPC and OSX-Intel are the same, they just run differently due to different chips, so programing for OSX should run just as well on either. If developers are using Apples X-Code tools all they have to do in theory is check on extra check box to make a Universal that will run on both, the extra time in development is in testing two platforms.
Codeing for OS9 and OSx were writing for different OS's so they had to start over basically.
It will be a long time before the Intel Mac number get near the PPC installed base right now.
--Spire

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