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Apple Secretly Maintaining x86 Port Of Mac OS X

Posted by timothy on from the diversity-in-the-workplace dept.

Earlybird writes "According to this eWeek article, Apple has ported the whole of Mac OS X to the x86 architecture and is maintaining it in parallel with the PowerPC builds. Dubbed Marklar, the project is perceived as a fall-back plan, and, quoth the article, 'has apparently gained strategic relevance in recent months, as Apple's relationship with Motorola has grown strained and Apple looks to alternative chip makers.'" Believe what you will ...

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  1. Re:I hope this marklar work out. by laserjet · · Score: 1, Redundant

    For all the people that didn't get this, it is from an episode of South Park where an alien race visits south park from the planet marklar. And they speak marklar.

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  2. Yeah, right... by Tar-Palantir · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I have a hard time believing this. Apple makes a lot of money because they sell their own hardware. If they only make it run on Apple x86 hardware, everybody still has to rewrite the darn apps to run (especially if it uses Carbon, Classic or is endian-dependant). Otherwise, they lose some hardware money and people _STILL_ have to rewrite apps. I just don't see how this could make any sense for Apple. MS will port Windoze first. (heaven forbid!)

  3. Re:I wish Linux had this. by toddhisattva · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Agreed!