Apple intern's thesis leaks secret project to port Mac OS X to ARM processors
A scientific article written by a former Apple intern who now serves as a Core OS engineer at the company revealed that it was working on a secret experiment to port Mac OS X Snow Leopard on the ARM architecture.
In 2010, Tristan Schaap published a Bachelor's thesis on its 12-week stint as an intern with Apple's Platform Technologies Group, a part of the Core OS Division. The thesis was originally embargoed because it is sensitive information, but it was eventually published by the Netherlands of the Delft University of Technology a few months ago, as reported by iMore.
According to the newspaper, Schaap worked with the group to Darwin, the "bottom half" of Apple's Mac OS X operating system to get to boot on an ARM processor from Marvell. In the course of the project, which he achieved his goal "booting into a multi-user prompt," although some issues remained as a result of "faulty execution of the debug hardware."
However, it is quite possible that Apple's explorations into porting Mac OS X on ARM architecture were not meant to ever ship a real product. The company is known that new engineers to place decoy on projects to determine their reliability.
But it is interesting to note that according to Schaap's LinkedIn profile, he Apple as a "CoreOS Engineer" after graduation and worked there for almost a year and a half. His profile shows his 2009 position internally as an "Embedded Bringup Engineer."
In 2010, Tristan Schaap published a Bachelor's thesis on its 12-week stint as an intern with Apple's Platform Technologies Group, a part of the Core OS Division. The thesis was originally embargoed because it is sensitive information, but it was eventually published by the Netherlands of the Delft University of Technology a few months ago, as reported by iMore.
According to the newspaper, Schaap worked with the group to Darwin, the "bottom half" of Apple's Mac OS X operating system to get to boot on an ARM processor from Marvell. In the course of the project, which he achieved his goal "booting into a multi-user prompt," although some issues remained as a result of "faulty execution of the debug hardware."
However, it is quite possible that Apple's explorations into porting Mac OS X on ARM architecture were not meant to ever ship a real product. The company is known that new engineers to place decoy on projects to determine their reliability.
But it is interesting to note that according to Schaap's LinkedIn profile, he Apple as a "CoreOS Engineer" after graduation and worked there for almost a year and a half. His profile shows his 2009 position internally as an "Embedded Bringup Engineer."
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