On Mar 17, 2006, at 3:06 PM, Cotty wrote:
On 17/3/06, Godfrey DiGiorgi, discombobulated, unleashed:
Of course. I had Windows and Mac OS X running on the same hardware
four years ago when I was at Apple.
Are you still bound by the non-disclosure agreement you signed back
then ? ;-)
For things which are company proprietary and secret, yes. The use of
Intel processors is no longer secret, nor company proprietary
information.
I worked with the development tools teams. If you wanted to develop a
compiler and development effort to build Mac OS for an Intel
processor four years ago, you bought an Intel computing box, which
could run Windows or Linux or any other OS written for it, and
started work on the development process to bring up Mac OS in the
Intel processor environment, one piece at a time.
The Intel-based hardware Apple is shipping I had no direct contact
with. I can tell you nothing about how it differs from a standard
Intel box that runs Windows. I do know the hardware and OS bootstrap
procedure is quite different.
Godfrey
