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What does this have to do with anything? Mac OS is totally portable (at one point. OpenStep provided transparent support for four CPU architectures), and server
by Tloewald 10y ago
What does this have to do with anything? Mac OS is totally portable (at one point. OpenStep provided transparent support for four CPU architectures), and server-side software even more so. Similarly, Apple could presumably port whatever subsets of Mac OS are needed as the mood takes them.
- acdha 10y agoIt wasn't that long ago that a universal binary on OS X meant four architectures: 32 and 64-bit for both PowerPC and Intel processors. That part of the Mach binary format worked quite well as most people never even noticed.
- Esau 10y agoI remember the Nextstep/Openstep days, as I owned a used NextStation. IIRC, those were called quadfat binaries.
- overgard 10y agoI never said macOS wasn't portable, so I'm not sure what you're getting at? My point is that iOS would suck on desktop without a lot of work, and a lot of that work would fall on app developers, not just apple.
- swombat 10y agoovergard's point is that you wouldn't run iOS on the desktop, you'd run macOS there, but on chips designed for mobiles (A*).
- overgard 10y agoseems like a likely point for that overgard fellow
- Tloewald 10y agoThe article is saying that intel should be worried because Ax chips are competitive with their chips. Whether iOS is a good replacement for Mac OS is irrelevant. Mac OS can run on Ax chips with no significant effort from Apple and not much from third party developers.