A bit confuse here. I am not sure about coded in c part … osx is … but is os9 Pascal plus assembler?
To me, there is a struggle of transition but the strategy is to contain, extend/swap then extinguish, as today is Halloween let us quote the halloween paper, to kill the os9 the whole code base. Everything from assembler has to go … as hp once said you do not eat your own baby other will ….
Among these major 2 plus 1 then just announced transition, as steve said in my quote video above it is the brain transplant of os. That is hard part. Not the hardware as they start with emulation and the cpu power of powerpc and intel move them along “easily” (and arm but we do not know because of low end target of Qualcomm). The whole discussion on cpu is sort of misguided. It is not the cpu ….
Really the hardest part is the os part. Os9 to osx when the base is actually objective c … hence nextstep (the real osx) can move from hardware to software, and run on intel. Apple just to maintain it secretly for years.
Yes osx always can run on intel. Just os9 and all this carbon thing etc thing that is the baggage that has to leave behind. That is a decade of work. But not to migrate os9.
For the arm as pointed out by others, the NVIDIA is an issue. Given N can be a Trillion dollar firm … I think Apple car may not be the best next move. Apple ai for the rest of us might be. How to make that transition ….
> I am not sure about coded in c part … osx is … but is os9 Pascal plus assembler?
Not to any significant extent. The leaked System 7 code I've seen was mostly C and assembler, with a couple of isolated Pascal files in specific areas (mostly Apple Events and CommToolbox). I can't imagine they added much more Pascal after that.
To me, there is a struggle of transition but the strategy is to contain, extend/swap then extinguish, as today is Halloween let us quote the halloween paper, to kill the os9 the whole code base. Everything from assembler has to go … as hp once said you do not eat your own baby other will ….
Among these major 2 plus 1 then just announced transition, as steve said in my quote video above it is the brain transplant of os. That is hard part. Not the hardware as they start with emulation and the cpu power of powerpc and intel move them along “easily” (and arm but we do not know because of low end target of Qualcomm). The whole discussion on cpu is sort of misguided. It is not the cpu ….
Really the hardest part is the os part. Os9 to osx when the base is actually objective c … hence nextstep (the real osx) can move from hardware to software, and run on intel. Apple just to maintain it secretly for years.
Yes osx always can run on intel. Just os9 and all this carbon thing etc thing that is the baggage that has to leave behind. That is a decade of work. But not to migrate os9.
For the arm as pointed out by others, the NVIDIA is an issue. Given N can be a Trillion dollar firm … I think Apple car may not be the best next move. Apple ai for the rest of us might be. How to make that transition ….