On Mar 2, 2006, at 2:27 PM, leonhorrocks wrote: > It will be fantastic if the new intel macs can be used as nodes > with the G4-G5 generation as > people are saying, although it seems odd it would be able too. Not at all. I'm sending this email and you're reading it, and we may well have different hardware (and different operating systems) but we don't care, because there's a platform-independent network protocol that lies between us. Unless Apple was outrageously stupid (and that's not likely) they defined a platform-independent network protocol for communications between Logic and a Node (and I'll wager that it's probably more general than that.) It almost certainly works in high-level primitives--the server says "instantiate a platinum verb with the following settings" and then sends a stream of sample data. The node knows how to compute a platinum verb.