<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>Could the old fabled "Red Box" (or was it yellow) that would run x86 apps in emulation under PPC be revived? That would probably be faster but it might throw another wrench into the decision making of developers.</DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jun 7, 2005, at 6:54 AM, Stroller wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On Jun 7, 2005, at 9:11 am, Brett Conlon wrote:</DIV> <BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Now, if Apple can get OSX to be able to run Windows based apps natively in OSX then that will really be SOMETHING!</DIV> <BR></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">That could be done - WINE <<A href="http://www.winehq.com/">http://www.winehq.com/</A>> is a similar technology. But I suspect that in reality it wouldn't work much better than virtual PC.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"></FONT><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Peter<BR><BR><DIV> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">A little computer haiku:</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">I can't remember<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">the last time I restarted</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">I love OS X</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica; min-height: 16.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica">This message sent with Mail.app 2.0.1 on Mac OS X 10.4.1</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 13.0px Helvetica"><A href="mailto:pkrug@mac.com">pkrug@mac.com</A></FONT></P> <BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>