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

[David Remahl]

No, I'm not forgetting anything.

I'm assuming that the original poster on the other mailing list claims 
he saw something more than Darwin.

The source for Darwin is available, and runs OK (although not without 
problems) on many x86 computers.

But - and this is a significant but - Mac OS X is a whoooole lot more 
than Darwin. The WindowServer (Quartz), for starters...Basically, all 
applications - The Finder, the Dock, loginwindow.app, anythingelse.app, 
Cocoa, Carbon, ApplicationServices.app, MostAnythingElse.framework 
(alright, there are a few open source frameworks) are CLOSED SOURCE and 
available exclusively as PPC binaries. Even X11.app is closed source 
:-).

Mac OS X is not open source. A limited part of the backend is.

/ Regards, David

On Sunday, January 26, 2003, at 06:39 PM, luke wrote:

>> Of course it is a hoax. It simply isn't possible to get PowerPC code 
>> to run without emulation on an x86 architecture. Apple didn't leave 
>> "something in the code" that would allow it. They would have to have 
>> left an x86 version of the binaries for every little tool and 
>> application, and they didn't.
>
> you may be forgetting that dawrin is OPENSOURCE - that means that the 
> SOURCE code is around somewhere...  and it just needs to be compiled 
> for whichever platform it is going to run on...  the source gets 
> compiles into x86 instructions instead of ppc....
>
> no prob.