JoshuaG
6 HN mentions · mentioned in 6 months, 2015–2021
8:15 · 904K views · May 17, 2007
Steve Jobs's WWDC 2005 keynote segment announcing Apple's move from PowerPC to Intel processors, and revealing that Mac OS X had been secretly built for Intel all along.
Cited in threads about Apple's chip transitions as the primary source for the Intel switch announcement and the secret x86 builds.
6 comments from Hacker News
When Steve Jobs announced the transition from the PowerPC to the x86 architecture in 2005, he mentioned that the transition from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X which took place between 2001 and 2003 set Apple up for the next 20 years. this video It's 2018, 20 years since Apple first announced Mac OS X at WWDC 1998 as a change from their original Rhapsody strategy. The 20th anniversary of the actual release of Mac OS X for consumers is approaching in a few years. Now, I still believe that there is plenty of life in Mac OS X, and I could see it easily being usable at least throughout the 2020s, provided that Apple maintains it in the meanwhile. However, I definitely wouldn't mind a new desktop OS. Let's face it: modern desktops such as Windows, Mac OS X, GNOME and its derivatives like Cinnamon, and KDE are all based on the GUI paradigm developed at Xerox PARC for the Xerox Alto workstation. This paradigm was further developed by Apple for the Lisa and the original Macintosh, and it has been further refined by NeXTSTEP, Windows 95, and early versions of Mac OS X. However, there are other GUI paradigms that haven't been tried in desktop environments outside of research labs and niche environments. For example, Xerox PARC also developed the Smalltalk environment. While it is commonly thought of as a programming language, it is more than just that; it is an operating system running inside a VM where everything is an object. This environment could easily be used to write full-fledged application
A dad know no end of petty. I have an Anti-Apple bias due to their business practices. Your to young but... The fastest computers are computers with PowerPC CPUs. than.... this video The rest of the tech people were like how can a PowerPC CPU be faster? It is plain 1 and 0 and the more 1 and 0 you get through the faster the processor. It ended up being 4 to 6 times faster. The Apple fanboys were famous for this time of Apple history. Also Apple knew the truth since they were always running an x86 OS X for 5 years and knew the numbers and just were fine spreading "Apple Truths." Sorry I digressed...
Apple mentioned the secret x86 build of OS X during the keynote when they announced that transition [1], I think they alluded to it in one of last year’s keynotes too. That said, you would expect them to have booting, installation, and wiping as one of the first things built in the macOS-on-ARM porting process. [1]: this video
Will be interesting to see if native iOS apps will be able to run for development or regular use. This is a good sign for the convergence of the Mac and "i" products. For fun here's the "transitions" talk Steve Jobs gave announcing the switch from PowerPC to Intel processors. this video
Fwiw, Apple had been building OS X on x86 for five years prior to announce of the last shift. this video Not sure how this impacts theory of neglect. Is it correct that the best folks from any given team at Apple are assigned to new, big initiatives?