On Jan 16, 2006, at 10:48 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yea. One of the biggest problems with Macs in an office
environment is that there are a LOT of required apps that are
Windows-only. Running them on a Mac, under a PC emulator (if they
run at all), is a horrible experience - abysmally slow, crashy,
etc. And IT departments sure don't want to put both a Mac and a PC
on someone's desk. Being able to switch-boot Macs into a full-
speed full-featured Windows will be a boon for Macs in those
environments.
Well, VPC (and other emulators, like QEMU and Bochs) run
significantly faster on Intel processors than they do on PPC's,
simply due to dropping the translation requirement.
I won't be suprized to see many office Macs running Windows
normally, then booted into OS X temporarily/periodically just to
run specialized apps.
That's bad for Apple, then they're viewed as just "a damned expensive
toy that idiot in Marketing is using to run one program." Worse, that
attitude leads companies to "port" their software by saying "Just
boot into Windows".
Bleah!
WINE will let many Windows program run right in OS X; it's already
working, albeit verrrry slowly, in conjunction with QEMU, in the
DarWine project <http://darwine.opendarwin.org/index.php>
On an Intel Mac the requirement for Qemu is gone.
One note...WINE is such a faithful rewrite of the Windows DLL's, that
it was also vulnerable to the recent WMF exploit. The difference was
that WINE was patched within a day of this being known.
--
Bruce Johnson
"No matter where you go, there you are", B. Banzai
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