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<blockquote data-quote="meltbanana314" data-source="post: 76958"><p>Darwin can run on x86, yes - but that's because both Mach and FreeBSD (XNU) could already run on x86 processors when Apple started using it for NeXTStep/OpenStep/OS X. They didn't even need to touch the x86 codebase that much when compared to PPC.</p><p></p><p>The real meat of OS X - parts of Carbon, Quartz, Aqua, etc... are all programmed specifically for PPC, and it would take one **** of a re-write to get anything to run on decent speed on non PPC processors.</p><p></p><p>I'm not sure I understand your last comment/question about open source, though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="meltbanana314, post: 76958"] Darwin can run on x86, yes - but that's because both Mach and FreeBSD (XNU) could already run on x86 processors when Apple started using it for NeXTStep/OpenStep/OS X. They didn't even need to touch the x86 codebase that much when compared to PPC. The real meat of OS X - parts of Carbon, Quartz, Aqua, etc... are all programmed specifically for PPC, and it would take one **** of a re-write to get anything to run on decent speed on non PPC processors. I'm not sure I understand your last comment/question about open source, though. [/QUOTE]
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