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."

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Re:Stop masturbating over apple

[Glock27]

I have some hope that Apple will open up some more under Cook.

Regardless, Apple is certainly not any worse than Microsoft, the maker of the only other viable desktop/laptop OS, in the "do no evil" department.

Apple also produces some of the nicest products, and what's widely regarded as the best user experience - and has the highest customer satisfaction for its products of any of the big players.

Apple innovation has also outshined the rest of the industry in a big way over the last few years.

Re:Stop masturbating over apple

[obarthelemy]

I do think Apple are worse than MS. Apple is responsible for translating the closed Console ecosystem to phones, tablets, and soon, PCs. Insisting on a 30% cut of whatever they do allow you to sell on their platform is quite bad.

MS are malevolent old-school nerds. Apple is monopoly 2.0.