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billy_gates:
Does Darwin x86 support AMD CPU's yet?
Has anyone ported the aqua UI to it?
cloudstrife:
as of 1.4.1 i do not believe it suppports amd-style mobos... so no it doesnt support amd chips.
no, but i sure as hell wish someone had ported it!
hm_murdock:
Aqua will never be included with Darwin on any platform. Aqua requires the Quartz display layer. Both of them are part of Mac OS X and are not open source. It is possible that Rhapsody's Display PostScript layer could find its way into Darwin, giving it a native display layer.
That would be goooooood, as long as it's able to run Cocoa apps
preacher:
The only thing I dislike about macs is the way they dumb down the names of everything. Aqua, Quartz, cocoa, I mean that sounds so wussy.
MacUser3of5:
What are they supposed to call them?
BigFuckingPenisDisplayLayer?
HardcorePornApplicationInterface?
It's called Quartz because it's 'crystal clear' and Aqua because the interface 'flows like water'... Those Apple peeps sure have a sense of humor about things... Does anyone else remember the developer code name 'BHA'? or Clarus, the dogcow? The dogcow 'technical article' still makes me laugh...
I don't think you could port Aqua to x86 very easily (if at all) because it would still require almost a total rewrite of most of the 'OS X' layer... not to mention apps would have to be recomiled. You would need the source, which Apple doesn't seem interested in giving out for an x86 port... although there is that mysterious Marklar rumor...
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