On 7 jun 2005, at 14:25, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
With Apple's announcement that its planning to switch over to Intel
chips, does this mean this whole effort with Darwin was less of a
grass roots effort as hobbyists to move the Mac OS over to x86 via
Darwin
I do not think Darwin was ever presented or promoted as a "grass roots
hobbyists effort to move the Mac OS to x86". It's just the open source
part of Mac OS X. It helps driver developers a lot, it gets some
hackers interested, creates some community goodwill and doesn't really
spill any Apple innovations which give them the edge by having it only
by themselves (contrary to the whole GUI stuff).
Darwin/x86 was afaik always presented as a way to keep Darwin portable
and to help root out bugs (some bugs may be easier to find or reproduce
on one architecture than on another). And given that Apple already
switched processors at least twice (and who knows, may switch again in
10 years), it was not such a bad idea at all.
Jonas
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