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

[Zawadzki, Dan]

It IS possible that this guy claiming to have X running on his X86
hardware had something like VMWare running with a fancy OSX theme faking
the Aqua interface.  Did you actually see this guy BOOT to X?  I think
not...it is not mechanically possible to run OSX on X86 hardware.

DZ

-----Original Message-----
From: cbirds [mailto:cbirds at earthlink.net] 
Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 4:49 AM
To: PowerBook G4 Titanium List
Subject: Re: [Ti] OS X on a PC? [forward from a different list]

Chris Olson tapped out this message on 1/25/2003 11:10 PM 

>If Apple *did* offer an alternative CPU architecture, it would still be

>in a highly controlled environment where you'd have to buy the Apple 
>hardware to get it.  You ain't just going to go out buy the cheap Dell 
>and drop OS X in it.  Supporting x86 hardware is a nightmare - there is

>no operating system that I know of that supports all hardware for x86, 
>including Windows XP.  So if OS X was to retain it's reputation of it 
>Just Works(tm), then the hardware environment has to be controlled.

Agreed -- and I would go as far to add that Apple is still working to
get 
back to that "Just Works(tm)" status themselves. :-)