On Thursday, October 14, 2004, at 11:13AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>PearPC has been around for quite some time. There's speculation that >CherryOS has packaged up parts of PearPC into a nice GUI, but either way, >CherryOS is not unique. CherryOS may be "new" news, however, emulating >MacOS X on PC hardware is pretty old news. I've been gagging for aproper GUI for PearPC for a while now, the one I have (PearGUI) is seriously flawed. As for the whole fruit thing... >> Apple just cannot allow that to happen! *imagines world where Macs have >> Pentiums or Athlons*.........*shudders* > >http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/ > >> imo if having an x86 based version of OS X was a good idea then Apple >> would have done it themselves. > >They did. They alledgedly had it running on intel hardware internally , at >least initially. NestStep supported intel, Rhapsody certainly had an intel >port, and Darwin will run on intel hardware too.. Little is it known but the forst release of MAc OS X Server (1.0 They apparently (I've heard it from many sources - non confirmed) ran it on AMD hardware (in PC cases that were aparently wealded shut!) laterly, sighting AMD as a possible PPC replacement for the future, when at the time the future of PPC looked uncertain. When the G5 was presented to Apple and their preliminary tests proved it was a good enough CPU to power the next generation Macs then they probably scrapped the project, although I would not be at all suprised if, in the deepest vaults of Apple, there is a small team than maintain an x86 compatible version of OS X in some form, possibly with a reduced GUI. >However, if Apple >released it, they'd loose all support from M$. No more M$ office etc. No >more M$ backhanders. M$ would nail them to the floor. You only have to >look at what happened to OS/2 and BeOS to realise that. Apple have more leverage than IBM or Be as they have a long standing reputation based on their OS already and are not trying to sell something totally new on a 'no prior experience' basis. But yeh they'd still get panned by MS. -- Mark Benson http://homepage.mac.com/markbenson -- Mac UK is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac UK list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-uk.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-uk%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
