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| Posted on 15-Sep-2004 22:32 GMT by Gary Goldberg | 39 comments
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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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| Comment 1 | Lando | | 15-Sep-2004 23:18 GMT |
| Comment 2 | Andrew Korn | | 15-Sep-2004 23:27 GMT |
| Comment 3 | Joe "Floid" Kanowitz | | 16-Sep-2004 01:11 GMT |
| Comment 4 | Joe "Floid" Kanowitz | | 16-Sep-2004 01:18 GMT |
| Comment 5 | Anonymous | | 16-Sep-2004 01:46 GMT |
| Comment 6 | AMC258 | | 16-Sep-2004 03:17 GMT |
| Comment 7 | Chris Perver | | 16-Sep-2004 05:50 GMT |
| Comment 8 | Anonymous | | 16-Sep-2004 06:16 GMT |
| Comment 9 | bennymee | | 16-Sep-2004 06:28 GMT |
| Comment 10 | Don Cox | Registered user | 16-Sep-2004 09:38 GMT |
| Comment 11 | miksuh | | 16-Sep-2004 12:04 GMT |
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| Posted by Don Cox on 16-Sep-2004 13:43 GMT | In reply to Comment 11 (miksuh):
"Software industry is slowly going into direction where you write an application once and run it everywhere, it makes sense from the developer's point of view."
It would if it were true. However, the company making the system has to support every known device, which is not economically possible. For example, Tao's Intent doesn't run on Macs or Amigas.
"Of course java has done that many years, but Java is not always best solution."
Java again does not "run anywhere" but only on a limited number of platforms. Also, it is not an OS, so whether something that requires specific hardware (such as Firewire) works depends on the host OS.
There is nothing new about "run anywhere". ZBASIC and UCSD Pascal attempted it 20 years ago. It can work for a program that has no specific hardware needs, such as a high res screen, a sound card, MIDI, etc.
The other problem is that it does _not_ make sense from the hardware manufacturers' point of view. These guys want exclusive software that runs only on their box. Even the users think like that - Pegasos users would be pleased to have programs that were not available for the AmigaOne, Mac users like to know that they have programs that don't run on Windows. |
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