Given that the various BSDs can run Solaris and Linux binaries; and
given that there are several part-successful methods for running
Windows binaries on Linux and BSD, it's surely a reasonable surmise
that a Tiger x86 box (if not a Leopard x86 box) can be persuaded to
run:
Mac Apps
Linux Apps
Solaris Apps
other UNIX Apps
Windows Apps
all natively on x86 architecture.
Of course, Apple may not take it in that direction. But this has the
look of a market advantage, to me.
GWW
On 8 Jun 2005, at 16:20, Peter da Silva wrote:
Having actually done a port in my day job, porting a large and
complex body of software, if properly engineered, to a different
architecture is not difficult at all.
Heh.
Last year I found an app I'd last run on a PDP-11 20 years ago.
The only thing I neede to do to it to make it run on an Alpha was
fix a system call that added delay so an ASCII animation effect was
slow enough to see.
And it turned out that was a bug in the original, it's just that
the PDP-11 was so slow I'd never noticed the delay was missing in
the animation.
Back to Steve, the thing I noticed was that the Dashboard widgets
he was showing off were all web-based, they had no native code.
See, Rosetta doesn't let you run PPC plugins in an x86 app. :)
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