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		philistine 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple’s Darwin OS and XNU Kernel Deep Dive I'm not convinced this year's OS release will support Intel. When they switched to Intel, Apple was quicker to dump PowerPC than people remember.

icedchai 9 months ago [–]

I'd be surprised if they don't support it for at least one more release. With Intel, they discontinued the PowerPC systems much faster (by the end of 2006.) They were still selling Intel hardware 2 years ago, a couple years into the ARM / Apple Silicon transition.

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