November 22, 2002
Is that a x86 in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
Here’s a wonderful bit of speculation to chew on while hanging around the espresso machine this afternoon. Danyon pointed out an anomalous blip in this Mac OS X features table. Toward the bottom of the page, the last item in the “Other Features” section notes that Jaguar includes a little something called “Amd support”. Ignoring the fact for just a seconf that the term is not capitalized exactly the same way as current rumor mill starlet AMD, it seems a tad odd that Apple would include this on a publicly accessible page. As far as I have been able to determine, there is no other technology, protocol, hardware architecture or computer-related acronym referred to as “Amd”. So if it quacks like a duck, then… you get the picture. Here’s a screen capture of the page, just in case Apple figures out that it’s supposed to be a secret after all. [ Update ] Well, that was a short lived news item. The pertinacious Aaron Straup Cope blows the lid off my conspiracy theory. Amd support means that OS X includes a daemon that automatically mounts a filesystem whenever files or directories within that filesystem are accessed. Part of me knew it wasn’t as straight forward as a simple slip of the marketing department’s pen. I just didn’t dig deep enough into my Unix man pages.
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