Re: mac os x compat?
Andrew Brown <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.devel.general |
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>It just occurred to me: are there any efforts (or is it feasable) to >develop Mac OS X compatibility? Given the Darwin foundation, it should >be possible, no? The benefit of taking advantage of various commercial >applications available for Mac OS X (but not for Darwin or *nix in >general) should be obvious. there was some talk of this at the boston usenix in 2001. subsequent to that, COMPAT_MACH and EXEC_MACHO were put into the tree. i *think* the only barrier to running macos x and/or darwin binaries is the lack of the mach system calls that they use. >Or is this a stupid question, and if so, why? no, not at all. imagine being able to run macos 9 as a process under netbsd. :) -- |-----< "CODE WARRIOR" >-----| [email protected] * "ah! i see you have the internet [email protected] (Andrew Brown) that goes *ping*!" [email protected] * "information is power -- share the wealth."