[News] Motorola Ships First 1 GHz Processor Implementing the PowerPC Instruction Set Architecture | ANN.lu |
Posted on 28-Jan-2002 16:39 GMT by Christophe Decanini | 38 comments View flat View list |
Here is the official Motorola Press release.
More technical information was available in the What's New box, MPC7455 product on this page. The link is not working righ now. It was available a few minutes before. I guess the are doing changes
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Posted by Gabriele Svelto on 28-Jan-2002 23:44 GMT | In reply to Comment 12 ([JC]): > Technically OS X could run on x86, Darwin already does, all Apple would have > to do is compile it... of course this will never happen, but :)
This is only partially true, the kernel can run on x86 (it does almost) but it needs quite some porting work. But that's only memory/device management and multitasking. MacOS X interface, all the drivers, etc... should be rewritten from scratch. |
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