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Even NeXT ported their OS to the 468. The legacy of that is likely why they were able to fairly easily transition MacOS from PPC to Intel years later. I had hea
by throwaway201103 6y ago
Even NeXT ported their OS to the 468. The legacy of that is likely why they were able to fairly easily transition MacOS from PPC to Intel years later. I had heard rumors that every version of Mac OS X had an Intel build secretly running at Apple.
- rvense 6y ago> I had heard rumors that every version of Mac OS X had an Intel build secretly running at Apple. Hardly a rumour, Steve Jobs said it at the announcement of the switch to Intel. "Mac OS X has been leading a secret double life", and then showed on a map at which Apple office they'd been working on it.
- gumby 6y agoNot every version. Here’s the story (on quota of all places but since corroborated): https://www.quora.com/Apple-company/How-does-Apple-keep-secrets-so-well/answer/Kim-Scheinberg?srid=i1#donotlink https://www.quora.com/Apple-company/How-does-Apple-keep-secr... I had friends working on tools for Apple (gcc, gdb, etc) who had no idea. They got bug reports from this team that had been washed of apple-specific info and posted publicly on external sites.