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The porting was obvious, the switching was not.
by tambourine_man 4y ago
The porting was obvious, the switching was not.
- SeanLuke 4y agoAgreed, but that's not what I'm annoyed by here.
- alwillis 4y agoThe porting was obvious, the switching was not. It was obvious to me, knowing that MacOS is based on NeXTStep and how that ran on a bunch of different architectures—68000, Intel, Sparc, etc. I even wrote 3 years ago here on HN (before Apple announced their transition to ARM) that I wouldn't be surprised if there were ARM-based Macs in the lab [1]. And also knowing that Apple always wants to be in control of as much of the technology they rely on as possible. After Motorola/IBM dropped the ball with PowerPC and Intel couldn't deliver the performance per watt they needed, they weren't going to fooled a third time. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21235236 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21235236
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agoNo, the porting is obvious - I guarantee Apple has test rigs running Darwin on AMD processors and RISC-V, for example - but switching, as in, actually doing something with that portability, is less obvious.