[Vm-dev] MacOS vs MacOSX?

[gettimothy]

Hi Casey



>The original Mac OS ran on the Motorola 68000. When that platform went the way of the way of the dodo, Apple switched to the PowerPC architecture. During the period of time when Macintosh computers used PowerPC microprocessors, Apple introduced Mac OS X. When the >PowerPC platform went the way of the dodo, Apple switched to x86 (we call this The Year Hell Froze Over.)
 

Thanks.


>While I'd reckon that that vast majority of Mac users are running above ia64 now, you'll still find people running older Macs (the Macs have historically retained their value and kept on kicking a bit longer than most of the IBM PC clones.) You'll find some of those people here, in the >Squeak community, so I think there's a strong argument for keeping those folks in mind.




Agreed.





>From your response, that implies...


MacOS32Motorolla6800V3   (even though M6800 is an 8 bit machine--ah...we covered this in Computer Architecture and Design....Complex instruction set....little black cockroach looking thing)
MacOS32PowerPCV3          (32 bit RISC)
MacOSX32x86                      (which we currently have)   
MacOSX32ia64                      (which we don't have)




On the GNU build tree, I will leave this unchanged. (unless Eliot wants them)


On the CMake side, I will add those things.


Thank you for your help.


cheers.


tty









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