> Doug posted:
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> Now, for Your PC: Mac OS X
> By Leander Kahney
>
> A Hawaiian company specializing in streaming video claims to have
> developed a $50 software emulator that allows a Windows PC to run
> Apple Computer's Mac OS X.
>
> [...]
>
> http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,65323,00.html/wn_ascii
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> A good idea (maybe) and I applaud their reverse engineering acumen but
> I think I'd rather just run FreeBSD (the kernel of OS X yes?) on the
> x86 platform and cut out the middleman. Apple's GUI is quite nice but
> its look and feel can be mostly duplicated by any other late model X
> windowing system (give or take a few tweaks and copyright
> infringements here and there).
>
I bought a used mac to run it. It didn't cost much more than $50 and
probably runs it at about the same speed (G4/400). Kernel is netBSD -
and "mostly duplicated" and "a few tweaks" are definitely
understatements. There is a lot of depth to the integration of GUI and
underlying operating system.
Owen