Question for Dave,or anyone who knows.

[anunitu]

Hadn't given it much thought before,but if anyone knows,the question is this. Are Apple systems now running on x86 family of chips now? They used to run on a 68000 chip I think.

[clive]

Yes, they use Intel x86 now, you can run virtual machines like Parallel's to run Windows.

The Mac's originally used 68K families ('20s, '40s), then PPC (Power PC), and then transitioned to x86

[dedndave]

in days of old, the 68k, C, and UNIX all went together rather nicely - lol

[Farabi]

So in the other words, we only need to write once on MASM and we can run it on Mac Computers too right? Of course after we take care the Boot sector protected mode code.

[dedndave]

different API, i am sure

never tried writing code for a mac
long ago, when macs were square little boxes, i looked into it
they wanted a bunch of money for the sdk - lol

[AParsons]

I *think* they run some BSD Unix variant under the hood with the MAC front end.

[vanjast]

This would make an interesting project..
A macro/script that's able to do basic functionality convertions between Mac and PC...

This could be the final onslaught of Mac onto Msoft... Attacking them on their home-turf... yeah!!
Maybe we'll now get better deals and better/stable OS's
:bg

[dedndave]

ya know - that might be do-able - maybe not as a macro, but a text "beautifier" or "conditioner"
something similar for unix-based OS's, too

[vanjast]

Sh1t.. you know my brain is mud at the mo...

What I mean is an Asm Directive api converter.... for pure API programming .. that is..

Something that can choose/convert the APIs during the asm compiling process.. to either Mac or Windows
:bg

[dedndave]

oh - i get that
thing is - it would require one helluva macro - lol
i was trying to avoid hogging resources when you assemble