On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 09:01 PM, Brian O'Neal eXclaimed: > This subject is beyond my level. But do those programs run as fast as > they do on their native platform? Is it similar to running classic, > but its unix?
They run just fine because they are running on their native platform. Mac OS X has at its core a version of BSD Unix. On top of its Unix is a scheme for displaying windows called Aqua. Most other Unixes (Unices??) use X-windows to display their windows, so most Unix programs expect to call X-windows display subroutines instead of Aqua display subroutines. X11 interprets the X-windows display subroutines for Aqua, allowing the X-windows programs to run. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be February 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
