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by berkut 2357 days ago
OS X Lion was the first version to use an x64 kernel, and there were definitely x86 (32-bit) versions of the OS and apps.

In particular, the quicktime runtime / codecs (until quicktime x) was only x86, and various VFX apps on OS X had to write RPC code to communicate with it as a 32-bit process from 64-bit land.