[P1] OS X on a PC? [forward from a different list]

[Anders Bogdan]

The only box I know that could pull that off would be a Mac running 
OSX, VPC (with windows) and X11 or XDarwin. You could confuse somebody 
pretty quickly about what platform you are on. Add a few case mods to a 
pismo and viola! an amazing Gateway box.
Anders

On Saturday, January 25, 2003, at 05:33  PM, Stephen Chakwin wrote:

> This was on another list that I belong to and it amazed me.  I don't 
> know whether X as used here can print or run peripherals or how hard 
> the thread was to create, but this looks like a potential 
> headache/opportunity for Apple, MS, and perhaps Intel.
>
> Stephen
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: AAWPC at aol.com
>> Date: Sat Jan 25, 2003  3:59:26 PM US/Eastern
>> To: MacLaw at yahoogroups.com
>> Subject: [MacLaw] Mac and PC
>> Reply-To: MacLaw at yahoogroups.com
>>
>> I saw the most amazing thing yesterday. A friend of mine showed me his
>> Gateway portable. He had partitioned the disc into three sections, 
>> and had
>> one version of Windows (which he said was based on UNIX, XP?), Linux, 
>> and
>> MacOS 10 loaded on separate partitions. He said he wrote a thread that
>> enabled the MacOS to work on the PC without an emulator. He said he 
>> could
>> have all three operating systems running at the same time. He showed 
>> me the
>> MacOS and the Windows running and he could just click between them to 
>> work in
>> each. I have never seen anything like it. I heard Apple had a shadow 
>> team
>> working on a PC version of 10, but to actually see one working, and 
>> so easily
>> was amazing. Think of the possibilities. I only got to see it for a 
>> couple of
>> minutes but I'm going to find out more. I wonder if he got Classic to 
>> work,
>> too?
>>
>> Alexander Wold
>> Albuquerque, NM
>> aawpc at aol.com