[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 3seas on 19-Sep-2004 15:42 GMT | This whole idea of translation regarding computer programs.....
use the source luke....
In other words.... of all the places where translation can be applied then why not do it at the source code level?
I was looking at something recent on linux (gaim???) ... something about ./configure generating the C++ source code needed for my particular system...
I think the only reason not to is for proprietary income generation reasons.
Consider Taos product that requires some translation table/module to allow a new platform to be used with teh same semi-binary.... who profits off that but of course Tao.
Ultimately things will evolve towards maturity in the software industry as the realization that, that which is natural, not patentable, regarding computer programming concepts and datatypes are more direct, simpler to deal with and support innovation.... rather than the fabrication of of some phoney "better way" under some proprietary technology...
In sum total, you can't do better than father physics and mother nature, but only make false claims of such nature.
MS is not an innovation machine, its a marketing machine that take the ideas and works of others and resales it as their property. BASIC and DOS.... where this MS marketing process began... |
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