Apple is known for its secretiveness, and secretive it is. Apple had a project running in 2010 which has been kept under wraps until a few months back. Apple’s Platform Technologies Group was/is working on a project that would essentially port the Mac OS X Darwin kernel to the ARMv5 chip. Why is this significant? Well, that very same chipset architecture currently powers iOS devices like the iPhone and iPad.
The project was titled ‘Porting Darwin to the MV88F6281′. The small but significant piece below was pulled from the aptly subtitled ‘ARMing the Snow Leopard: Read More...
