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Article #13006Re: Apple, Intel & Endianness
From: Bjorn Olsson d.�
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 14:19
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 14:19
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In article <1gy5it6.4ogqp01vfz4kpN%spam@husumtoften.invalid>,
spam@husumtoften.invalid (Per R�nne) wrote:
> How much will Apple have to change the operating system in order to let
> MacOS X and MacOS Classic {68K emulation including} run on an Intel
> processor?
>
> Remember that MacOS has always run in big-endian mode and that Intel has
> always run in little-endian mode. MacOS would have to emulate
> big-endianness for old programs just as VirtualPC for G5 has to emulate
> litte-endianness on the G5 {earlier PowerPCs could run both ways}.
Per, it is at this point not a matter of having to change anything, they
already have. Every version of OS X has been developed in parallel for
Intel. Classic will apparently not be supported any longer.
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