[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 sutro on 16-Sep-2004 17:06 GMT | In reply to Comment 13 (Fabio Alemagna): > The idea was here long before TAO or Amiga even existed, and nowadays the leader of this field is not TAO, it's MS with it's .NET platform (together with its open source implementations) and, to a certain extent, Sun with its Java platform.
LOL
.... ,and nowadays the leader of this field is not Real, it's Micro$oft (together with its open standards WMA format) and, to a certain extent, Apple with its iTunes Music Store and iPod devices. |
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