mezrabad
09-13-2004, 07:47 PM
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,64914,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2
In brief: a company has developed a way for one platform to emulate software that runs on another platform without a significant performance hit. The example they use is running Linux Quake III on an Apple Powerbook G4 (I didn't notice what OS version, so I don't think I'd be terribly impressed if it's running on OS X as I understand that's fairly Unix-like to begin with, eh?) Anyway, I'm pretty skeptical about it and was hoping some other people with sharper minds could grow some better informed opinions about it and share them here.
Didn't know where else to post this as I just noticed the emulation forum is unavailable at the moment. (it probably has been for awhile, I'm a little slow.)
In brief: a company has developed a way for one platform to emulate software that runs on another platform without a significant performance hit. The example they use is running Linux Quake III on an Apple Powerbook G4 (I didn't notice what OS version, so I don't think I'd be terribly impressed if it's running on OS X as I understand that's fairly Unix-like to begin with, eh?) Anyway, I'm pretty skeptical about it and was hoping some other people with sharper minds could grow some better informed opinions about it and share them here.
Didn't know where else to post this as I just noticed the emulation forum is unavailable at the moment. (it probably has been for awhile, I'm a little slow.)