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Article:		It's True! Jobs Switches to Intel: A Review of the WWDC 05 Keynote
Subject:		2 x 5 = 5
Date:		2005-06-08 05:41:54
From:		nosumo

> He explained that "Mac OS X has been leading a secret double > life for the past ten years... compiled for both PowerPC and for > Intel for the past five years." Double indeed! Two times five years is ten years. But seriously, which is it? It must be five years that OS X has been living a double life, because it's public beta only came out in late 2000.

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2 x 5 = 5
2005-06-08 06:13:56 jeffhuff [View]

Maybe he is referring to the pre-Apple OS X called NeXTSTEP. NeXTSTEP for Intel came out in about the 1995 timeframe. I was a NeXT developer and used NeXTSTEP on Intel for about 3 years. In those days Universal Binary was called fat-binary. NeXTSTEP ran on four platforms; NeXT, Intel, Sparc and PA-Risc (HP). You could compile your .app for all four in a quad fat-binary. Since OS X is a very close descendant of NeXTSTEP, I guess you could start the clock back then.

2 x 5 = 5
2005-06-08 06:19:06 Daniel H. Steinberg | [View]

Thanks Jeff - that was my take on it as well.