They hacked the Mac OS X to run on Intel hardware. I'm not talking about them changing to an Intel architecture. While I'm not sure of the particulars, I heard that it's only a few minor code adjustments to get the OS to run on Intel hardware. If I remember right, it's a BIOS checking thing. If it's not the Mac BIOS, it won't install or run?
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jonathan Hutchins</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:hutchins@tarcanfel.org">hutchins@tarcanfel.org</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
For a long time, I&#39;ve been under the impression, largely from friends who have<br>been running Macintoshes for ages, that OS-X was based on one of the three<br>BSD forks - that essentially it was a *BSD with an Apple window
<br>manager/desktop environment, and with the kernel (and other programs) locked<br>to the Trusted Program Module (TPM).<br><br>Comments from some of you lately led me to do some research.&nbsp;&nbsp;It appears that,<br>at least on the internet, current documentation agrees that OS-X is based on
<br>Openstep, which evolved from NeXTSTEP, which was derived from 4.4 BSD<br>(pre-fork?) and the Mach OS.<br><br>It&#39;s funny how knowledge like this can evolve on the web.&nbsp;&nbsp;What gets collated,<br>analyzed, and archived becomes the truth.&nbsp;&nbsp;What was known to be true at the
<br>time gets forgotten.&nbsp;&nbsp; Mode Emulators become Modulator/Demodulators.&nbsp;&nbsp;Other<br>acronyms drift.<br>_______________________________________________<br>Kclug mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Kclug@kclug.org">Kclug@kclug.org
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