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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by pducks32 on Monday April 02, 2018 @02:49PM (#16737882)
They may never release it but no doubt they have it. There are iMacs in Cupertino running macOS on ARM and there are iPads running macOS. During the PPC transition it was pretty obvious that Apple had been building OS X to work on Intel for a while secretly.
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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by Bud on Monday April 02, 2018 @03:34PM (#16738387)
It's not like it was a big stretch: Mac OS X came directly from NeXTStep, which had already been ported to Intel wayyyyy back in the NeXT days.
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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by lostgame on Monday April 02, 2018 @04:29PM (#16738972)
Which means it's not a big stretch for iOS, either, since it's built on top of MacOS.
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