On 14 July 2016 at 20:47, Chris Hanson <cmhan...@eschatologist.net> wrote: > And interestingly, these days IBM is a huge user of Macs… which these days > use a derivative of the system architecture that IBM developed!
On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 11:24 AM, Liam Proven <lpro...@gmail.com> wrote: > The PC CPU was from Intel, not IBM. Macs now use Intel CPUs. Yes, the CPU architecture is from Intel. The hardware *system* architecture is from the IBM PC. That's the main reason why you can boot Windows on an x86 Mac. (And other PC operating systems.)
