[Devtools] why is Mac OSX called Darwin?

Langdon White langdon at redhat.com
Fri Apr 14 00:26:23 UTC 2017


And Darwin is the open source "core" of OS X

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017, 20:09 Todd Mancini <tmancini at redhat.com> wrote:

> 64 bit "80x86" as we know it today was originally created by AMD, not
> Intel. Intel was trying to push Itanium at that time for 64 bit. So it's
> normal to refer to 64 bit apps on Windows as amd64. Intel had to change
> course and adopt the AMD model. (Which was basically the same as the 16->32
> bit model that Intel did in the 32 bit days. Itanium was their New Coke.)
>
> Sent from my phone, so anticipate hilarious autocorrects
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> and is the Windows version AMD only, no Intel?
>
> My 2 dumb questions of the day :-)
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