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		wvenable on June 30, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Could Ruby be Apple's language and API future? To be fair, NeXTStep very publicly run on x86 before NeXT was bought by Apple -- it didn't just appear out of nowhere. And the actual processor is mostly abstracted away -- it's not difficult to simply recompile your apps for another CPU.

asksol on June 30, 2010 | [–]

Not just the PPC -> Intel switch, before that they switched from 680x0/m68k/68k/68K to PPC as well. Which certainly wasn't just a simple recompile.

_pius on June 30, 2010 | [–]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A4#History

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