Interestingly, I read an article about OSX that hinted Apple had very easy portability in mind when creating this new OS. The rationale in the article was that Apple was getting antsy about the long-term survival of the PowerPC processor.
Cameron Hood wrote:
Har, har, har! Excellent work, old bean. Now if you could just get a Pentium 4 to run OSX, you'd be really happenin'!

