By: Wes Felter (wmf.delete@this.felter.org), August 5, 2014 8:19 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
Patrick Chase (patrickjchase.delete@this.gmail.com) on August 4, 2014 7:51 pm wrote:
> Speaking of urban legends, I've always liked the one about Apple's "super-secret" project
> to create an x86 port of OSX (hint: It was on x86 long before they bought it).
I also assumed that Apple had maintained the x86 version of NeXTSTEP/OS X all along, but then I read this: http://www.quora.com/Apple-company/How-does-Apple-keep-secrets-so-well/answers/1280472?srid=i1 which makes it sound like the x86 code went unmaintained for a while until one guy secretly revived it.
> Speaking of urban legends, I've always liked the one about Apple's "super-secret" project
> to create an x86 port of OSX (hint: It was on x86 long before they bought it).
I also assumed that Apple had maintained the x86 version of NeXTSTEP/OS X all along, but then I read this: http://www.quora.com/Apple-company/How-does-Apple-keep-secrets-so-well/answers/1280472?srid=i1 which makes it sound like the x86 code went unmaintained for a while until one guy secretly revived it.