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OPENSTEP was running on x86 even before the merger. The work would have been mostly to make it look and feel more like what Mac OS users were familiar with, and
by throwawayboise 5y ago
OPENSTEP was running on x86 even before the merger. The work would have been mostly to make it look and feel more like what Mac OS users were familiar with, and adding the ability to run "Classic" Mac OS applications.
- wtallis 5y agoTrue, but OPENSTEP on its own would not have been of much interest to Dell given the very small software ecosystem. The promise of also inheriting the Mac application ecosystem made Mac OS X far more marketable.
- thewileyone 5y agoI used to work on OpenStep and it was nothing like the previous version of MacOS; I used to work on MacOS before OpenStep.