Fluxstringer wrote:
In the case of XPostfacto I would suggest the term 'interpretation" is
a suitable phrase .
The quotes around the word "naitely" are appropriate. Just as OS X is
spoken by Legacy Macs in the same way English is spoken in many third
world countries " natively"
No. All XPostFacto does is install some Darwinish drivers for video,
audio, etc. and set up the NVRAM to boot OS X on Legacy Macs. Everything
is Native, it just needs some help to get running. The kernel is running
directly on the processor, accessing the same features and code as if it
was on a newer Mac. It's directly accessing disks, hardware, etc.
Native. No emulation, intepretation, or other such is going on in the
background, it's just tweaking the OS to boot properly. Once OS X is
booted (or starts booting, even), XPostFacto is out of the way and OS X
is fully in control. There's nothing sitting between it and the hardware.
I understand your enthusiam, I really do (I'd been in on Mac emulation
from the beginning and eagerly awaited every promised PPC emulator, only
to be disappointed time and time again) but even if speculation leads to
creativity there has to be some basis for the enthusiam. Right now it's
way to early to speculate on what might happen. If there's a question as
to whether the 360 can emulate a Xbox 1 at full speed, we'll have to see
how well it can emulate a Mac. There's nothing to be creative about yet ;)
Scott
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