Apple front page hints at OSX X86
"To go where no PC has gone before"
Back in the late eighties/early nineties, there was a secret project at Apple called Star Trek. Because it was to "take the MacOS where no MacOS had gone before". It was porting system 7 to intel, they were partly funded by the ever-paranoid Intel, and they got much of the old toolkit running on 486s...
Now look at the front page of Apple.com. As much as I just can't believe OSX X86, This clearly alludes to it...
Relax though, even I don't believe it
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Back in the late eighties/early nineties, there was a secret project at Apple called Star Trek. Because it was to "take the MacOS where no MacOS had gone before". It was porting system 7 to intel, they were partly funded by the ever-paranoid Intel, and they got much of the old toolkit running on 486s...
Now look at the front page of Apple.com. As much as I just can't believe OSX X86, This clearly alludes to it...
Relax though, even I don't believe it
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As impossible as it seems, I would believe 2.4 GHZ G5's before an intel port.
The hard part is, it's hard to think the way Apple views its products. They would say that the iPod has gone where no MP3 player has gone before. From this, I would guess that Macs will gain some functionality, which pc's do not currently have. How desirable this functionality will be, remains to be seen.
BTW, there's a <a href="http://http://forums.appleinsider.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=000593" target="_blank">discussion</a> about this in Future Hardware already if you're wondering why no one is replying to this thread.
I would be willing to bet that they were told that there will be something huge that has never been done before. Come up with some lines to keep people wondering.
Just my 2¢
I know lots of people who want to use OS X but don't want to buy a Mac because they like to build their own machines.
Maybe a PPC port of XP?
<strong>I've heard many Steve Jobs keynotes where he uses the term "PC" to refer to a Personal Computer, NOT specifically a Windows machine.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I remember the keynote where he introduced the digital hub idea. He specifically said that people were predicting the death of PCs but he felt that the PC was going to become the digital hub and wasn't dying. Am I crazy or did he really say that? I'm like 99% sure he did and of course he was referring to all PCs (personal computers), Mac or Windows.
What will change is that "personal" computer will really soon be "personal" in that it will be smaller, portable, and more powerful.
<a href="http://www.opensource.apple.com//" target="_blank">http://www.opensource.apple.com//</a>
"What is Darwin? Darwin is the core of Mac OS X. The Darwin kernel is based on FreeBSD and Mach 3.0 technologies and provides protected memory and pre-emptive multitasking. Darwin runs on PowerPC-based Macintosh computers and a version is also available for x86-compatible computers. "
You can download the cd-rom image from Apple or purchase it from <a href="http://www.bsdmall.com/darwin141.html" target="_blank">http://www.bsdmall.com/darwin141.html</a>
:cool:
Everyone already knew that Darwin ran on x86. Big flippin' deal.