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It suddenly occurs to me that RISC OS will now be a viable alternate operating system for modern PCs. And I'll be able to run BBC BASIC natively on a Mac.
by bencollier49 6y ago
It suddenly occurs to me that RISC OS will now be a viable alternate operating system for modern PCs.
And I'll be able to run BBC BASIC natively on a Mac.
- pavlov 6y agoApple has said they’re not going to support booting non-Apple operating systems on the ARM Macs: “We’re not direct booting an alternate operating system,” says Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering. https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/24/21302213/apple-silicon-mac-arm-windows-support-boot-camp https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/24/21302213/apple-silicon-ma...
- mhh__ 6y agoIt really frustrates me. Apple put so much effort into very beautiful hardware only to completely lock in their users. I understand why, but they have one of the only market positions that could charge a premium for a computer ecosystem which is genuinely free from the cancer of the "free" business model like Google and Facebook and seem genuinely care about avoiding that model while simultaneously locking people in to an almost Soviet degree. I'd love to own a beautiful arm laptop, but I find apple software just dull - not as "big" as windows but not as fresh as Linux.
- Someone 6y agoIt will be a challenge to boot anything else than macOS on those machines. They won’t support Boot Camp, and require boot binaries to be cryptographically signed by Apple (https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10686/ https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10686/, starting around 15m30s) Virtualization on top of macOS should work, though.
- bencollier49 6y agoHopefully someone might challenge this during the oncoming wave of antitrust investigations.