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by microtherion 2997 days ago
> despite Forstall getting on stage years ago and stating that Carbon was going to be 64-bit “top to bottom”

This is the second time I've seen you make that claim. Can you, by any chance, recall on which occasion he said this (or dig up the exact quote)? AFAIK the plan was always to use the 64 bit transition as an opportunity to shed deprecated APIs, so to imply otherwise in public would have been rather irresponsible.
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wlesieutre 2997 days ago
I don't know about that particular quote, but this has a photo of the WWDC side claiming 64-bit Carbon and Cocoa, so that was definitely the original plan

https://www.wired.com/2007/06/leopard-won-t-support-64-bit-c...

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microtherion 2997 days ago
Hmm, that is plausible. I stand corrected.
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