Even though Apple has been hyping up the 64bit nature of its ucpoming Snow Leopard operating system, stating it will be the first Mac OS X release to be 64bit top-to-bottom, reality turns out to be a little bit different so far. With the current Snow Leopard seed, only Xserve users get the 64bit kernel and drivers - all other Macs default to 32bit. By holding down the '6' and '4' keys during boot, you can to boot into full 64bit mode - that is, if your Mac supports it. As it turns out, some Macs with 64bit processors cannot use the 64bit kernel because the EFI is 32bit. Note: I should have included in the article that 64bit applications will run just fine (including benefits) on a 32bit kernel in Mac OS X. Since this was already possible in Leopard, I assumed people were well aware of that. Turns out some were not, so my apologies for that.
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You do it by purpose, or what?
The document that you link to is a seed document saying that in which machines the 64 bits kernel is loaded by default and which ones can do it if not. The document explains how to boot a 64 bits kernel for testing 64 bits KEXTs, so what? It does not say anything else, and nothing in that document supports your arguments. I would advise you to read first developers documentation on how to build 64 bits apps to first understand what it is about, what 64 bits means (you really don't seem to understand it), or do you claim that you know what it is about?
Again read my first post as it goes through the understandings that you have, forget your self proudness pretending that you know better than others because you write on OS news.
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2005-11-16
Which Apple documents, find me one thing that goes against what i said.
I have been at the last WWDC, i do believe that i know what i am dam talking about.
Insult you? You have been spending your last weeks spreading non-sense when it come to what Apple people does, says or even think. And you say that you are tired, what?
I think that my explanation is quite complete and i clearly said why you are wrong. I got the technical part, what about you besides nothing? I am the one who come with the arguments and not with the sensational non-sense that you come with. Prove the opposite!