Re:Arm Announces Client CPU Roadmap For Laptops
by matwood on Friday August 17, 2018 @11:51AM
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I would also bet the already have full macOS running on ARM internally. I think we are seeing the proof of this in the new libraries being released to support the iOS like apps (News and Stocks) on the Mojave.
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Re:Arm Announces Client CPU Roadmap For Laptops
by mavhc on Friday August 17, 2018 @05:54PM
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Why do you think they rewrote from scratch all the applications they acquired from 3rd parties like Final Cut, Logic?
Re:Arm Announces Client CPU Roadmap For Laptops
by burnte on Friday August 17, 2018 @07:39PM
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You don't need to rewrite them from scratch. They've had those companies for years and it's a good bet that they've done work to make it more portable. It was already available back when Macs were using PPC, so the code is obviously somewhat portable.
Re:Arm Announces Client CPU Roadmap For Laptops
by mavhc on Saturday August 18, 2018 @06:33AM
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Perhaps they didn't need to, but they did anyway
Re:Arm Announces Client CPU Roadmap For Laptops
by pducks32 on Friday August 17, 2018 @12:37PM
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When they transitioned to Intel they even said they had internal Macs running on Intel for years waiting for this day.
Re:Arm Announces Client CPU Roadmap For Laptops
by gsnedders on Friday August 17, 2018 @02:47PM
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AFAIK, they essentially "just" maintained the x86 port of NeXTSTEP throughout the entire migration from NeXTSTEP to Mac OS X.
I wouldn't be amazed if they supported big-endian PPC still for the sake of maintaining portability, though I feel that's less likely than little-endian ARM.
Re:Arm Announces Client CPU Roadmap For Laptops
by stiGGG on Friday August 17, 2018 @02:19PM
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Did somebody here get one of these back in the days?
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-development-trans...