[haiku-development] Re: PowerPC and the APM

  • From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:28:51 +0200 CEST

> >> Mac os x has a feature that allows 'fat' binaries; i.e. binaries
> > > with
> >> multiple architectures.
> >
> > This is only on the userland side of things
> > that is for *applications*
> > since it's the OS that handles them.
> > The OS itself, let alone the bootloader likely is x86 only.
> >
> Well, I know, for example, that their install cds work on both
> architectures... They do a universal boot somehow.

Ok but that doesn't involve universal binaries.
It just have both loaders.

BeOS R5 Pro CDs were also bootable on both PPC and intel AFAIK.

François.


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