Re: [NTLK] Bigger than iWalk

From: Bill Davis (newton_at_ecity.net)
Date: Sat Jan 05 2002 - 02:01:45 EST

>What would be really revolutionary is if they ported OS X to run on Intel
>machines.
>Can you WOW.
>

I can say "NOOOOO!"

Although......they sort of have, in Darwin:

http://www.opensource.apple.com/

The NextSTEP/OpenStep OS on which MacOS X is based ran on Intel (and 68K
and PowerPC and I think something else) hardware already before Apple
bought NeXT.

There is a Darwin port for Intel. You don't get all the OS, just the
core, no GUI...but I believe that XWindows has been ported to it.

So the potential IS there. But it's not likely, as Apple is a HARDWARE
company. That's where it makes most of it's money. Porting it totally
to Intel hardware so that it'd run on machines they didn't make would
just kill the company. Just look what happened when Apple allowed
cloning the Mac. People made cheap knock-offs instead of innovating and
hurt Apple. A lot. They didn't expand it's market at all.

It'll never happen unless the Motorola totally screws up PowerPC
development (worse than they already have, I mean) and I think Apple's
taking steps to not be dependent on them anymore...

 - Bill 

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