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Re:Why Apple ditched PowerPC, and what it says about Apple d... by melling on Saturday June 20, 2020 @10:48AM (#23584236)
NeXTStep ran on Intel so when they ported it to PowerPC they simply kept the Intel builds running.
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Re:Why Apple ditched PowerPC, and what it says about Apple d... by gsnedders on Saturday June 20, 2020 @06:18PM (#23587865)
Heck, until Rhapsody Developer Release 2 Apple shipped IA-32 builds. It was only after that, with Mac OS X Server 1.0 that they dropped IA-32 support publicly. That they'd kept the whole thing running on IA-32 never seemed at all far-fetched.
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Re:Why Apple ditched PowerPC, and what it says about Apple d... by cmiles74 on Saturday June 20, 2020 @11:11AM (#23584364)
It also ran on SPARC and PA-RISC, I think even some Motorola 68000 at some point.
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Re:Why Apple ditched PowerPC, and what it says about Apple d... by icedchai on Saturday June 20, 2020 @11:18AM (#23584408)
Yes, NeXT's original hardware platform was 68K based: the NeXT Cube and NeXTStation (slab.) They were 68030 and later, 68040, based machines.
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Re:Why Apple ditched PowerPC, and what it says about Apple d... by cmiles74 on Saturday June 20, 2020 @11:26AM (#23584451)
I didn't mean to be didactic. I was thinking more that likely remains fairly easy to port. :-)
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Re:Why Apple ditched PowerPC, and what it says about Apple d... by icedchai on Saturday June 20, 2020 @12:14PM (#23584710)
Oh, sorry! I have a NeXTstation in my retro collection and have a fondness for those old machines. I plan to install NeXTStep on a Sparc but haven't got there yet...
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Re:Why Apple ditched PowerPC, and what it says about Apple d... by mattl on Saturday June 20, 2020 @12:28PM (#23584780)
They were already working on PPC but when they went software-only the hardware division was sold to Canon and spun off as Firepower Systems.
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