15 Jul
2016
15 Jul
'16
4:43 p.m.
On 14 July 2016 at 20:47, Chris Hanson <cmhanson at eschatologist.net> wrote:
And interestingly, these days IBM is a huge user of
Macs? which these days use a derivative of the system architecture that IBM developed!
On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 11:24 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
The PC CPU was from Intel, not IBM. Macs now use Intel
CPUs.
Yes, the CPU architecture is from Intel. The hardware *system*
architecture is from the IBM PC. That's the main reason why you can
boot Windows on an x86 Mac. (And other PC operating systems.)