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CTOnews.com, July 20 (Xinhua)-- users have been able to run macOS on non-Mac devices through the Hackintosh tool. However, due to various restrictions, not many people have been able to run iOS systems on PC.

Previously, a developer named Martijn de Vos successfully simulated the initial version of iPhone OS on his computer using QEMU simulation software, but now he has successfully simulated the running environment of iPod touch 2 (iPhone OS 2).

According to a tweet from ▲ source Martijn de Vos, Martijn de Vos tweeted today that it had simulated the running environment of iPod touch 2, all drivers worked and the SpringBoard app started normally, but for some reason, the window buffer could not be initialized.

CTOnews.com found that in his previous tweet, Martijn de Vos said he didn't choose iPhone OS for iPhone, but iPod touch because more components were needed to simulate iPhone.

▲ Martijn de Vos early simulated screenshots of iPhone OS 1.0, source tweets from Martijn de Vos another interesting thing about the project is that Martijn de Vos simulates using OpeniBoot, a third-party open source bootstrap designed to guide Apple's early devices to run Android.

IPhone OS 1.0 was the first major version of the iOS mobile operating system developed by Apple. It didn't provide an official name when it was first released, so it was simply called iPhone OS on both iPhone and iPod touch at that time.

IPhone OS 2, simulated by Martijn de Vos, is the second major version of Apple's iOS mobile operating system and is the successor to iPhone OS 1.0. IPhone OS 2 was mainly added to the App Store App Store, which was replaced by Apple's iPhone OS 3 on June 17, 2009.

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