8 Jun
2005
8 Jun
'05
2:55 p.m.
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Jules Richardson wrote:
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 07:36 -0400, Steven N. Hirsch
wrote:
Ah, but that's the point of virtualization. The environment can be setup
to look like something quite different from the actual hardware. Also, if
Apple is really aggressively looking at cost savings, they'll be likely to
use the Intel north and south bridge chipsets. Unless they plan on
custom asics galore, there's a bound to how "different" the hardware can
look.
Steve
self-virtualize seamlessly, how long will it take
for someone to hack up a
"preboot" supervisor layer which will support OS X on a garden-variety PC?
Have Apple said that they're going to run on PC-like hardware? I
*thought* their only comittment was to x86 chips and that nothing's been
said about system bus, support chips or other architecture. In which
case there might be substantial differences between Apple hardware and a
cruddy PC that'd mean a big rewrite / bodge of a lot of the OS to get it
to work.