[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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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 |
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Posted by AMC258 on 16-Sep-2004 03:17 GMT | "Typically with emulation you take a big performance hit," he said. "Their big breakthrough is they are much more efficient ... but there's so much overhead anyway, you can pretty much put any software on any platform. The power user might notice the difference, but the other 95 percent won't notice."
This puts Amiga into context. There is so little overhead in the Amiga operating system (I can't speak for OS4 though) that Amiga apps are likely to run much slower than their quoted 80% on a "per-MHz" basis. |
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