11 Jun
2012
11 Jun
'12
3:52 p.m.
At 7:53 AM -0700 6/11/12, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
Marklar was, of course, the Intel version of OS X which
existed in Apple's
skunkworks after the apparent demise of Star Trek (classic OS on x86). I say
apparent, because this post, allegedly written by the wife of the chief
engineer, implies that Marklar rose from the ashes of Star Trek due to this
guy's efforts.
http://www.quora.com/Apple-Inc-2/How-does-Apple-keep-secrets-so-well/answer…
Not sure how true it is; perhaps Al Kossow knows.
One thing that I find suspicious about this is that the first few
Developers releases for Mac OS X ran on Intel-based systems. Apple
had to port it to PPC, they didn't have to port to Intel, as it
already ran on Intel. I'd be more inclined to believe that the PPC
processor was never intended to be the long term target for Mac OS X,
than I am to believe that at some point it didn't run on Intel.
Zane
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