[X4U] Apple's move to Intel chips

[Zane H. Healy]

>On Jun 6, 2005, at 7:48 PM, Ted Burton wrote:
>
>>Mac-centric folks can still buy Apple. And an Appletel  box  can 
>>run Windows software in an Mac-centric shop. No one needs Virtual 
>>PC.
>
>I'm trying to dust the cobwebs out of he appropriate areas of my 
>brain, but I seem to remember Apple having Windows apps running 
>under OS X (or NeXT when it was on Intel hardware). It was 
>essentially the equivalent of Blue box running Classic software.
>
>Anybody else remember more about that?

I don't remember anything like that.  I do remember OS/2 being able 
to run Windows apps starting with either 2.0 or 2.1.  That is part of 
what killed OS/2.  Thought I know what killed it for me was the 
horrid quality of native apps for OS/2 (specifically Lotus 
Smartsuite, which at the time was owned by IBM).

If NeXTStep or OPENSTEP was able to run MS-DOS or MS-Windows 
applications it was most likely using SoftPC or SoftWindows, however, 
I can't remember either running on NeXT.  Anything like this on 
Rhapsody would have only been seen by a *very* select few.

For running Windows apps on Mac OS X, I'd suspect VMware 
http://www.vmware.com which is very good at what it does.  I don't 
know how well Virtual PC runs on Windows, but I do know I've come to 
really hate the product.

			Zane


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