5 ms·
When apple started their intel transition, intel used 32 bit CPU’s primarily. The first intel macs (core Duo) and intel dev kits were 32 bit, the core 2 duos on
by Synaesthesia 7y ago
When apple started their intel transition, intel used 32 bit CPU’s primarily. The first intel macs (core Duo) and intel dev kits were 32 bit, the core 2 duos onward were 64 bit. It’s really a small amount of Macs.
- vetinari 7y agoThe previous gen, P4 and P-D were already 64-bit, XP 64-bit and 2003 64-bit was out, Linux was 64-bit for years; Core Duo not being 64-bit was a stop-gap and everybody knew that. Creating new ABI on that was exactly like launching a new Carbon project today, that's why I compared these two in the first place.
- Synaesthesia 7y ago>P4 and P-D were already 64-bit Ah yes had forgotten that (the Apple Intel Dev Boxes were P4's)
- whatthesmack 7y agoWeren’t they Xeons?
- p_l 7y agoLate Pentium 4 in a pretty much random standard PC motherboard, I think it didn't even have EFI (even the broken 2001-vintage one that was common for years on x86 Macs). Xeons arrived with Mac Pro.
- SllX 7y agoNah. P4s, a gig of SDRAM, either a GMA 800 or GMA 900 for graphics, a 1x and a 16x PCIe slots, a 160GB disk and a DVD drive all running on the first Tiger service pack (10.4.1). Yours for 18 months for only $999! (‘Twas a rental.)