[Forum] A big step forward in cross-platform computing | ANN.lu |
Posted on 15-Sep-2004 22:32 GMT by Gary Goldberg | 39 comments View flat View list |
By Leander Kahney
02:00 AM Sep. 13, 2004 PT
A Silicon Valley startup claims to have cracked one of most elusive goals of the software industry: a near-universal emulator that
allows software developed for one platform to run on any other, with almost no performance hit.
Transitive Corp. of Los Gatos, California, claims its QuickTransit software allows applications to run "transparently" on multiple
hardware platforms, including Macs, PCs, and numerous servers and mainframes...
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,64914,00.html?tw=wn_6techhead
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Posted by Lando on 15-Sep-2004 23:18 GMT | "almost no performance hit"
I don't believe that for a second.
"QuickTransit fully supports accelerated 3-D graphics and about 80 percent computational performance on the main processor."
Right, so I can run my OS X apps on a 3.6Ghz x86 box at the speed of a 2.88Ghz G4 or G5?
I think this is just marketing hype and if it lives up to their claims I'll be very very surprised. |
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