Wowfunhappy Posted October 4, 2015 Share Posted October 4, 2015 This is just something I'd like to understand. I have a new Skylake desktop. It won't run any versions of OS X. I also have an Ivybridge Laptop. It runs OS X Lion and above just fine, but the only way to run Snow Leopard is via a custom kernel. And yet, I could install an un-updated version of Windows XP on EITHER of these computers, and it would boot up fine. Sure, I'd have some issues with drivers--graphics acceleration, sound, etc probably wouldn't work--but the OS would install and boot, without any modifications. This from an OS that came out the same year as the first version of OS X. I know that Windows is designed to be hardware-agnostic whereas OS X is not, but surely Microsoft's programmers couldn't have prepared for a processor that wouldn't be released for another ten years. So, what makes Windows forwards compatible with future processors, whereas OS X needs to be updated every time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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