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There were Itanium workstations ( https://www.openpa.net/systems/hp_i2000.html , https://www.openpa.net/systems/hp_zx2000.html ), but of course these quickly crashed and burned wit…

Not to mention rendering the driver’s display (gauge cluster)

It’s rendering the driver’s display (i.e. the gauge cluster), the driver HUD, the central display, watching a driver-facing camera for fatigue alerting, handling Bluetooth, WiFi, n…

That’s correct, Rosetta for running x86_64 binaries in Linux VMs is not going away. They’re no longer branding this feature as Rosetta, so it doesn’t get lumped in with the Rosetta…

For some reason, the PS4 and PS5 actually cannot play audio CDs

These links show the pinout: https://hardware.majix.org/computers/sgi/keyboards.shtml https://hardware.majix.org/computers/sgi.pi/keyboard.shtml And the keyboard(7) man page actual…

Also, SGI keyboards never used ADB. Indigo-era SGIs used a mini-DIN keyboard/mouse, but it was proprietary. They were PS/2 starting with the Indigo2 and Indy.

My memory from classic Mac OS is that pushing the keyboard soft-power key brought up a system-modal dialog asking if you wanted to shut down, restart, or cancel, a dialog with exac…

The author discussed this a bit on Mastodon as well: https://xoxo.zone/@numist/116716469017975106

At this point that would be a 2018 Mac mini, which can only run Sequoia (which will be out-of-support at the same time as Homebrew drops Intel support). If you want Intel support, …

Virtualization.framework just gained USB passthrough support in macOS 27. It might be a niche feature for containers to add, but other VM software will likely add support soon.

I would consider HFS+ to be a legacy filesystem at this point, something you shouldn't use without a really good reason (interop with pre-macOS 10.13 machines being the only one I …

Note to the author: did you file an Apple feedback for this? You should put that FB number in your post and the GitHub repo, it will ease the process for any Apple employees who se…

Right, that’s why you get a simpler yes/no dialog for notifications, and a conplex “navigate to this settings pane and click a separate button” flow for a keylogger

Those are still needed for the Rosetta use-cases that are sticking around (old games, Linux binaries)

I feel like that's true for early/mid-90s games where the PC version targeted DOS (+ the varied universe of PC video/sound hardware), and the Mac version could just target the much…

WinCE 6 Platform Builder was based on Visual Studio 2005 I think. Building applications for WinCE 6 was also only supported with Visual Studio 2005 or 2008, which put a hard cap on…

See https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-note...

Correct, that is staying around. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-note... : > There will continue to be support for older, unmaintained gaming titles leverag…

True, Apple's developer and support pages are not all fully up-to-date or explicit. From the macOS 26.4 release notes ( https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos-release-note…

No, those need to stay (at least the ones needed to run the targeted "old unmaintained games"). What can go is all the x86_64 slices of system binaries (i.e. bash, perl, etc etc)

Evidence that NVIDIA has even been trying? My understanding is that Apple didn’t allow 3rd parties to write graphics drivers past 10.13, but they could’ve done a non-graphics drive…

I believe it was the first RISC that Apple prototyped building a Mac around, including a 68K emulator. IIRC from Gary Davidian’s CHM oral history, it was corporate dealmaking that …

The report says it broke when updating from macOS 15 to 26, so not a minor patch update. I'm a bit surprised no one noticed this earlier though, since 26 has been out since Septemb…