OSX coming to X86?!

russotto · 09-04-2002, 01:26 PM

Yeah, Apple is anti-innovative all right. Apple farts and Dell moves to copy the smell, and it's Apple who is anti-innovative.

Being an actual Apple developer (since late 1983), I know that Apple did in fact provide developers with tools for making the transition to PowerPC. Most obviously, the 68K emulator included in the system; some 68K applications STILL execute under 10.2 (in Classic mode).

Certainly it would have been possible at that time to move the the x86 architecture instead of PowerPC. But it wouldn't have made sense to do so; the x86 architecture was at the time and remains a creaky mess -- AMD and Intel have managaed to make the pig fly, but it's still a pig.

09-04-2002, 01:26 PM	#1
russotto Professor Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,788	Re: Re: Tom, back then it was ASM code Yeah, Apple is anti-innovative all right. Apple farts and Dell moves to copy the smell, and it's Apple who is anti-innovative. Being an actual Apple developer (since late 1983), I know that Apple did in fact provide developers with tools for making the transition to PowerPC. Most obviously, the 68K emulator included in the system; some 68K applications STILL execute under 10.2 (in Classic mode). Certainly it would have been possible at that time to move the the x86 architecture instead of PowerPC. But it wouldn't have made sense to do so; the x86 architecture was at the time and remains a creaky mess -- AMD and Intel have managaed to make the pig fly, but it's still a pig.

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