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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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| Posted by MarkTime on 20-Sep-2004 18:25 GMT | there has been a lot of misunderstanding about this product on the amiga news groups (no surprise there, since most of you live in candyland).
this is a hardware emulator and some system mapping for unix-like os's....
true, transitive says the don't want to call it an emulator...
but that is purely marketing, it is an emulator of hardware, thats what it does.
Now, as far as WINE...no.
Obviously, if I have a program that calls another program, and that other program doesn't exist...
then transitive can't do anything about that.
So if I have a windows binary, and I call some OS DLL's, but that OS DLL doesn't exist...i.e.
you never installed windows and you don't have a license for it...then that binary WILL NOT WORK.
This isn't an OS emulator at all...if you want to run windows programs, you will have to have a copy of
windows.
Think of the transitive system like another Virtual PC...the technology and speeds may be breakthrough,
but this isn't a software emulator at all, if you need to run windows, you will need to have windows.
Now, Linux is free, and wine is free, and I'm not saying you can't install WINE if you want, but that
has nothing to do with transitive.
Why you all are confused about this...I don't know, because the announcement was clear, and nobody,
but nobody ever said it let you run windows programs on a macintosh without windows.
You can run windows for Intel on PowerPC hardware...but you'll have to have a copy of Windows installed.
If you want to run windows binaries, you will need to license a copy of windows, or run a program like wine. |
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