Re: mac os x compat?
"Gary Thorpe" <[email protected]>
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>From: Andrew Brown <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: mac os x compat? >Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 16:48:37 -0400 > > >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. :) > The only problem is getting the proprietary mac os x libraries to run the applications.... I suppose the libraries for darwin will be available though. _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com