On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 01:48:54PM -0800, ME wrote: > The rumor I heard, is that Apple has an in-house copy of MacOSX running on > x86 that they use for debugging cross platform problems and to illuminate > bugs that exist on the PPC side of things, but that don't show up > immediately. This rumor came about when they were asked a question like: > "Do you have a copy of MacOSX running on x86?" > "No comment" > > And some sort of later clarification that there is one running in-house, > but it nothing close to full-fledged with full comparable support with > PPC... They only wrote drivers for the devices they use and everything > else is dropped. They had no plans to develop this for marketing to > consumers, it was just a tool used during the development process. > > Of course these are just rumors. At the time, many of the sources (web > pages, USENET posts) had inconsistent quotes and descriptions. It has many > of the earmarks of an urban legend. Searches on google may provide these > original posts, or better yet, may show something from Apple that is > official. > > -ME
In introductory documentation of Mac OS X architecture, in discussion of the Application and Library hierarchical representations (an "Application" in OS X is really a folder hierarcy), they mention that the application is divided into folders for each CPU architecture, and they specifically cite x86 as an example... -Micah _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
