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On 25/05/07, Rob Poretti wrote: > IMHO, I don't believe Apple and Linux should grouped together. I know > Apple's OS comes from UNIX but they are very different animals. For > one thing, each have their own market driving forces. (I suppose a > common driving force is that they are both *NOT* Windows! <LOL!> > Perhaps this is what you implied? :-) ) > > I know that all of the OS's will run on the Intel platform but > developing for those other platforms is still an independent and task. > Some libraries can be shared of course, but it's still significant > work to port things over. We've been Apple developers for over a > decade, most recently porting some of our restoration tools for Pro > Tools. It's not as easy as it seems. > > The more likely scenario is the OS's will continue to "merge" over > time. Right now we have dual-boot Macs. Soon we will be able to have a > Mac session and a PC session active simultaneously. After that I could > see intersession communication between applications and file/resource > sharing - that kind of thing. We had just that on desktop Amiga computers around 15 years ago, running the old Mac OS 7 or 8 simultaneously with the Amiga OS, and being able to move files between them. At that time both were using 68040 or 68060 processors. > Ultimately, software will be compiled so > that the same source will work on both. OS API calls will simply get > diverted to the correct interface handlers depending on what OS you're > running... > > <dreamy smile> > > Now wouldn't that be nice? > > Cheers! Regards -- Don Cox [log in to unmask]