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They weren't developing it, a bunch of random engineers ported it to the hardware they had. Like MacOS on x86 Intel.
by revelation 13y ago
They weren't developing it, a bunch of random engineers ported it to the hardware they had. Like MacOS on x86 Intel.
- 300bps 13y agoI read the blog post and every blog post the blog posts pointed to. You seem to be right - some engineers ported Android to Lumia hardware. As the blog posts stated, there are surely Microsoft employees playing around with iOS 7 and Google employees playing around with Windows Phone. This post seems more a symptom of professional bloggers needing to fill story quotas rather than being actual news.
- JimmaDaRustla 13y agoI hate journalism so much for these types of reasons, one of my biggest pet peeves is journalism attempting to trigger an emotion or response rather than reporting the story.
- 4ad 13y agoI have no idea what Nokia did, but the Mac OS X statement is extremely wrong. OS X is a descendant of NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP which always ran on IA-32. From 1989. Rhapsody (the unreleased OS X precursor which added a more Mac OS interface to OPENSTEP) ran on IA-32. Even Mac OS X Server 1.0 ran on IA-32. Mac OS X 10.0-10.3 were not released for IA-32, but support was maintained internally by Apple, fact easily checked because the Darwin releases from that period worked on IA-32.
- cokernel_hacker 13y agoI am afraid that you are "extremely wrong" He was referring to Mac OS, not OS X, which did have an intel port http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_project
- 4ad 13y agoInteresting, I didn't know about this. However, the comment is still wrong, this was a joint effort between Apple and Novell, not "a bunch of random engineers".
- yesplorer 13y agoInterestingly that is what makes it extremely wrong even though the substance of the OP is entirely correct: that Mac OS was ported to 86x