OS X on a PC? [forward from a different list]

[Stephen Chakwin]

This was on another list that I belong to and it amazed me.  I don't 
know whether X as used here can print or run peripherals or how hard 
the thread was to create, but this looks like a potential 
headache/opportunity for Apple, MS, and perhaps Intel.

Stephen

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> From: AAWPC at aol.com
> Date: Sat Jan 25, 2003  3:59:26 PM US/Eastern
> To: MacLaw at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [MacLaw] Mac and PC
> Reply-To: MacLaw at yahoogroups.com
>
> I saw the most amazing thing yesterday. A friend of mine showed me his
> Gateway portable. He had partitioned the disc into three sections, and 
> had
> one version of Windows (which he said was based on UNIX, XP?), Linux, 
> and
> MacOS 10 loaded on separate partitions. He said he wrote a thread that
> enabled the MacOS to work on the PC without an emulator. He said he 
> could
> have all three operating systems running at the same time. He showed 
> me the
> MacOS and the Windows running and he could just click between them to 
> work in
> each. I have never seen anything like it. I heard Apple had a shadow 
> team
> working on a PC version of 10, but to actually see one working, and so 
> easily
> was amazing. Think of the possibilities. I only got to see it for a 
> couple of
> minutes but I'm going to find out more. I wonder if he got Classic to 
> work,
> too?
>
> Alexander Wold
> Albuquerque, NM
> aawpc at aol.com
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