OSX was always ready for Intel?

zoranb · #1 December 13th, 2005, 08:00 AM

Was OSX always ment to run also on Intel cpus as well as on PPcs from day1? Cause i heard something like that but im not sure.

MisterMe · #2 December 13th, 2005, 08:25 AM

Steve Jobs told you this when he announced the switch

nixgeek · #3 December 13th, 2005, 09:11 AM

NeXTSTEP begot OPENSTEP, and then OPENSTEP begot Rhapsody once Apple and NeXT merged, and then Rhapsody became Mac OS X. OPENSTEP ran on Pentium CPUs, so the support has always been there even through Rhapsody.

UpQuark77 · #4 December 13th, 2005, 11:15 AM

THe other thing is that the BSD kernal already runs on Intel. Heck you can download FreeBSD from the web. Just know that FreeBSD is NOT OS X

ra3ndy · #5 December 13th, 2005, 11:17 AM

Steve Jobs said that from day one, OS X was developed platform-independent. This theoretically means that with a little code, OS X could be run on ANY processor that could handle it.

**fryke** · #6 December 13th, 2005, 01:11 PM

So, if we want to wrap this up:

Yes.

zoranb · #7 December 13th, 2005, 05:17 PM

Ok so out there there must be a "puma" beta that will run on a P3 say at 800mhz?

rhale1 · #8 December 13th, 2005, 05:58 PM

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Ok so out there there must be a "puma" beta that will run on a P3 say at 800mhz?

In theory, yes. But any copies of it are likely locked up deep inside 1 Infinite Loop--never to see the light of day--and isn't worth even thinking about.