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Date:      Sat, 03 Jul 2004 20:29:28 +0900
From:      Eitarou Kamo <e-kamo@trio.plala.or.jp>
To:        Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and MacOS
Message-ID:  <40E69898.3040206@trio.plala.or.jp>
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Hi,

Bruce Cran wrote:

>
>
> No, Apple _does_ invest the money and time to create an x86 port: 
> http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/
> That is only the kernel and command-line utilities, there's no GUI 
> included. http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/osx/arch_xnu.html provides a 
> good overview of the kernel. Apple did have a port of MacOS X to x86 
> (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/09/02/apples_x86_os_named_sized/), 
> I would guess they were waiting to see which CPU they were going to 
> use after the G3, since Motorola were being a little slow in making 
> faster PowerPC CPUs. They were considering switching to an Intel-based 
> line; in the end they went with IBM and their PPC970, so I would think 
> it's fairly unlikely we'll now ever see a version (of the GUI) for x86.
>
> -- 
> Bruce Cran

As for GUI, no problem. Apple will be able to add X.org one
or other one with their DeskTop on the kernel ASAP, I guess.

Eitarou


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