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There's always a hedge afoot. Apple had OS 7 running on Intel as early as 1992. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S
by alrs 10y ago
There's always a hedge afoot. Apple had OS 7 running on Intel as early as 1992.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_project
- duskwuff 10y agoI would be shocked if Apple didn't have macOS running on some ARM development systems internally. It's not even that much of a stretch -- both systems use nearly the same kernel, and the iOS userspace runs on x86 as part of the iOS Simulator.
- fnord123 10y agoafaik there is no ACPI with ARM so it's non trivial to setup an ARM system that has modular hardware as we take for granted in the Intel world. Maybe they went through the trouble and are keeping it under wraps. Or maybe not.
- astrodust 10y agoNeXT had an Intel version as a hedge as well. Seems those two projects were destined to merge together.
- pvg 10y agoThat was actually their product rather than a 'hedge' for a while.
- astrodust 10y agoIt started out as a hedge against their own hardware being an impediment to sales, then ended up being their entire business. I guess it was a good hedge to have!
- protomyth 10y agoConsidering they had NeXTSTEP release versions running on x86, PA-RISC, SPARC, and its original home 68000, they did pretty well. I do wonder why the MIPS chips were ignored.
- ams6110 10y agoNot just Intel but PA-RISC and Sparc as well, in addition to M68K.
- rthille 10y agoAlso Moto 88110 RISC processors (though those NeXT products never saw the light of day...)
- Tanegashima 10y agoMore than that, NeXTSTEP 3.3 and later did really release to the public for Intel x86
- stuaxo 10y agoSystem 7 on top of DrDOS... If only this could be released somehow, its an amazing bit of history, a copy has to exist somewhere.