> Apple already went through this before with PowerPC -> x86 Not to mention 68K -> PowerPC. Rhapsody supported x86, and I think during the PowerPC era Apple k

> Apple already went through this before with PowerPC -> x86 Not to mention 68K -> PowerPC. Rhapsody supported x86, and I think during the PowerPC era Apple kept creating x86 builds of OS X just in case. This may have helped to keep things like byte order dependencies from creeping in.