[X4U] Apple's move to Intel chips

[T.L. Miller]

On 6/7/05, at 11:36 PM, Michael Elliott, <michaelelliott at mac.com> said:

>I think what everyone is referring to is that it might be possible to
>have Windows loaded in an emulation environment that would be able to
>run on its native processor.  Sort of like when I would run MOL (Mac-on-
>Linux) with a PPC Linux distro.  Not quite as fast as the real thing,
>but MUCH faster than running through software emulation.

Yes, it may be likely that you could run Windows on a Mactel, and then
you could run Windows apps, but then you would have a dual purpose
machine. A different situation from the one in the original message  --
two OSes able to run the same version of an app. OS X would still need
its own version.