[Ti] On the positive side..............

[Dennis Fazio]

--On June 7, 2005 04:09:24 PM +0100 Robin Jackson <robinjackson at mac.com> 
wrote:

> Possibly a dual core CPU in my PowerBook AND running VPC with a native CPU
> could give me a huge performance boost and make my life much easier.

I think a virtual machine design would be a much better solution. That's when 
you run multiple operating systems simultaneously on one computer. Leopard 
could be a virtual machine-based OS. Apple has design control of the hardware 
and can make it work. Then you don't need an emulator to run Windows; it just 
runs native within the virtual machine environment.

Another way would be to do something like WINE on Linux does to run Windows 
apps, if I understand that correctly. It's not a full emulator, just an 
emulation of the system calls so the application sees the right interface to 
the OS. Otherwise, it just runs native at full speed for all other tasks.

However, something I haven't seen discussed yet is that there may be a risk 
in running Windows applications on the new Intel Macs too well; some 
developers, including major ones, may see no need to develop the OSX version 
any more unless there were a clear performance or functionality 
differentiation between the two environments.
-- 
Dennis Fazio
dfz at mac.com