June 7, 2005 07:08
What could really "upset the Apple cart" ( the fruit analogies are coming thick and fast!) for OS X software developers with the new Intel platform is the issue of users opting to run Windows vertical market software on their Macs...
You may or may not be aware of the DarWine project.. Wine is an Opensource Linux application that allows Windows executables to be run on Linux x86 without Windows. Darwine have been trying to port this to the Mac.
The big issues with running Windows applications seemlessly within OS X has been the processor emulation of the x86 on PowerPC (which slows things down terribly). On an x86-based Mac, this ceases to be a problem. Potentially, your Intel-based Mac could quite happily run, god forbid, MaxSea or RayTech Navigator transparently under OSX Tiger.
Now I know that Darwine is still in development, but the Intel move will make running Windows executables at near real speed a reality....
... how does that affect Mac developers? :? :? :?
You may or may not be aware of the DarWine project.. Wine is an Opensource Linux application that allows Windows executables to be run on Linux x86 without Windows. Darwine have been trying to port this to the Mac.
The big issues with running Windows applications seemlessly within OS X has been the processor emulation of the x86 on PowerPC (which slows things down terribly). On an x86-based Mac, this ceases to be a problem. Potentially, your Intel-based Mac could quite happily run, god forbid, MaxSea or RayTech Navigator transparently under OSX Tiger.
Now I know that Darwine is still in development, but the Intel move will make running Windows executables at near real speed a reality....
... how does that affect Mac developers? :? :? :?