<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">YES! it truly is. The Linux guys have been doing it for a few years now<DIV>Look up wine on the net it stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator</DIV><DIV>As linux runs on Intel HW these guys figured that you could run a windoze app with just a skeleton showing the programs to the CPU, no Windoze.</DIV><DIV>As long as the programs are able to address the CPU as if Windoze was there, then they work like a charm.</DIV><DIV>Darwine was attempting to do this using the PPC processor and still is, but with Apple moving to Intel it ramps the easier to do it thing up quite a bit</DIV><DIV>As far as X11 goes, it is on the install disks for OSX tiger and for 10.3 back can be downloaded here,</DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/x11formacosx.html">http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/x11formacosx.html</A></DIV><DIV>X11 is a windowing technology for unix systems, it is technically elegant but not cosmetically beautiful.</DIV><DIV>It allows the user to start multiple processes on the local and remote servers in separate windows, its a cool tech with great geek factor</DIV><DIV>For the non geek all you need to know is that X11 will boot and within the X11 window the windoze program will run as if it were on a windoze PC, with no windoze!</DIV><DIV>It is way cool to see that happen under Linux and it will be WAY COOLER under OSX</DIV><DIV>This is not a pipe dream, it so on the cards you can smell it :-)</DIV><DIV>Check it out at the Darwine site</DIV><DIV><A href="http://darwine.opendarwin.org//">http://darwine.opendarwin.org//</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Heres to enjoying all this...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Alex</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-------------------------------------------------------<BR><DIV><DIV>On 14 Jan 2006, at 01:16, Ardeshir Mehta wrote:</DIV><BR><DIV>Huh? Is that truly possible? (Speaking as an ignoramus as far as X11 is concerned ...)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I really would like to be enlightened about this.</DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>