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OS X to have Windows support? - bangman - 03-28-2006
Crazy stuff.
http://gearlog.com/blogs/gearlog/archive/2006/03/28/8751.aspx
Things could be getting interesting.
Sorry if repost.
Re: OS X to have Windows support? - M A V I C - 03-29-2006
Whoever came up with the idea of making money off of speculation must be a rich mofo.
Re: OS X to have Windows support? - Seacrest - 03-29-2006
M A V I C Wrote:
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> Whoever came up with the idea of making money off
> of speculation must be a rich mofo.
Um, that's the bedrock of capitalism.
Bein' a rich mofo, that is.
Re: OS X to have Windows support? - Silencio - 03-29-2006
I call baloney. It's quite a leap to go from the more logical premise that "Apple wants fair, accurate cross-platform benckmarks" to "Apple is going to natively support Windows!"
Re: OS X to have Windows support? - Filliam H. Muffman - 03-29-2006
Yeah, someone could have made it across the Grand Canyon with that leap of logic.
Re: OS X to have Windows support? - ztirffritz - 03-29-2006
Have you guys heard of wine? Or Darwine? Or Qemu? It isn't hard to believe they could do this.
Re: OS X to have Windows support? - M A V I C - 03-29-2006
ztirffritz Wrote:
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> Have you guys heard of wine? Or Darwine?
> Or Qemu? It isn't hard to believe they
> could do this.
Have you seen the benchmarks with those? That's the difference here. Apples and oranges are still fruit, but the comparison...
Re: OS X to have Windows support? - ztirffritz - 03-29-2006
There are people playing Doom and other, rather demanding games under WINE. It can be done. With support from a large able-bodied corporate entity it would likely improve quite a bit. Or, are you still talking about the benchmarks for cross-platform emulators, PPC vs. Pentium? Those will always suck. I'm talking about Mactels running Windows Apps. Remember, WINE stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator. It is running Windows apps natively on Linux. It is a difficult process because lots of the needed code is still closed source and needs to be reverse engeineered, but it does work, and fairly well. I've run MS Office under WINE. It worked pretty well until it hit some function that required IE which caused it to blow up.
I have no doubt that they could do this, I just don't think that it is a good idea. Why? Apple, as they usually do, will make this work so well and so seamlessly that users won't know when they are running a native Windows app or a Mac app. All of the security problems and crappy coding present in Windows code could become viable on the Mac as well. This could kill at a minimum the functioning of the Windows apps, but possibly even bring the Mac down.
Re: OS X to have Windows support? - SteveJobs - 03-29-2006
Max OS X Red Box
http://www.osopinion.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=4759&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/6110/%7CMacDailyNews
Re: OS X to have Windows support? - Silencio - 03-29-2006
"Apple, as they usually do, will make this work so well and so seamlessly that users won't know when they are running a native Windows app or a Mac app."
I disagree. You can apply all the lickable Aqua eye-candy on top of a clunky Windows app, but it will still be clunky Windows app; and people will still be painfully aware of the differences between actual OS X apps and these WINE-ified ones.