At 11:40 AM -0500 1/2/2009, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: >Apple Mac hardware utilizing Intel chips is optimized for Mac OS X.
The hardware is NOT optimized for Mac OS X. The SOFTWARE is optimized for the hardware, sortof. Most of the Operating System, drivers, etc, are written in a generic HOL (higher order language). 98% of the optimizations come from the HOL compiler (be it C, C++, Objective C, Java, etc). *Maybe* 2% are from developer choices, to take advantage of a specific feature of the hardware. That's why it's so easy to port OS X to different platforms... PowerPC, Intel Core, ARM,... >OS X was originally authored on Intel developer machines long before an >Intel mac was first sold to an end user. OS X was *ported* to Intel, not "authored". - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
