Apple Intern Spent 12 Weeks Porting Mac OS X To ARM

An anonymous reader writes "Apple hasn't released a Mac OS X device running on ARM yet, but a recently discovered thesis from a former Apple intern going by the name of Tristan Schapp details a 12-week project carried out in 2010 to port the OS to the ARMv5 architecture. The port got as far as booting to a multi-user prompt, but then hit hurdles to do with drivers and cache. The good news is that same intern now works for Apple as part of the CoreOS team. With rumors last year that a MacBook Air running on ARM could appear by 2013, could he be part of a team making that happen? If he is, I bet it will use the new ARMv8 architecture announced late last year."

Comments

Re:Hello!

[sideslash]

*pushes Tristan out the door*

Sorry for the disturbance, folks. The fellow had a little too much schnapps and was starting to bother people.

Par for the course.

[Anonymous Coward]

Sounds like standard intern hazing.

"Hey, Tim, take this source code (*drops huge book of source on desk*) and port it to... uh... ARM."

**12 weeks later.**

"Holy crap, he made it work."

At least it wasn't SPARC.

Re:Par for the course.

[TC Wilcox]

Poor Apple... with their outdated OS X, useless iPad and simply useless iPhone... They have been surpassed by Fedora and Windows.

Yeah, poor Apple..... Where will they find the money to fund improvements to their OS? It is just hopeless, completely hopeless.....

Re:Par for the course.

[V!NCENT]

Fanboys? Overpriced RAM? Pick two.

Re:Stop masturbating over apple

[g0bshiTe]

I'm reminded of this joke.

http://www.tensionnot.com/jokes/operating_systems_and_airlines