Comments on: MacOS to run Windows Aps natively? http://www.forevergeek.com/2006/04/macos_to_run_windows_aps_natively/ Nerds are for Dorks Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:04:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bob http://www.forevergeek.com/2006/04/macos_to_run_windows_aps_natively/#comment-31940 Bob Tue, 26 Sep 2006 04:59:11 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/?p=2927#comment-31940 fuk thats to much fuk thats to much

]]> By: Nick http://www.forevergeek.com/2006/04/macos_to_run_windows_aps_natively/#comment-31939 Nick Sun, 23 Apr 2006 16:33:01 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/?p=2927#comment-31939 "Windows applications without Windows' dysfunctionality!" I have two (primary) problems with the line of thought expressed here: (1) Boot Camp allows users to multi-boot OS X and Windows. It's a boot-loader, nothing more. No different from Grub/Lilo/Yaboot/BootX. Having not personally used Boot Camp, all it does is provide an OS X native interface to the boot loader's configuration. (2) Even if Apple manages to implement the Windows API, how can you expect to run windows apps without all the trouble of windows? If anything, you're running an application in an environment for which it was not tested or intended. The Windows API is a mammoth beast which has developed over the course of many years. It has grown by extension with backward-compatibility in mind. Any third-party implementation (see WINE) has a massive task ahead of them. However, if Apple does indeed have direct access to the API definition, it does provide a significant advantage over other implementations. Expecting Windows apps to run natively, flawlessly on OS X is unrealistic. Running on identical processor architectures does nothing to span the API and functionality chasm of software built upon software. “Windows applications without Windows’ dysfunctionality!”

I have two (primary) problems with the line of thought expressed here:

(1) Boot Camp allows users to multi-boot OS X and Windows. It’s a boot-loader, nothing more. No different from Grub/Lilo/Yaboot/BootX. Having not personally used Boot Camp, all it does is provide an OS X native interface to the boot loader’s configuration.

(2) Even if Apple manages to implement the Windows API, how can you expect to run windows apps without all the trouble of windows? If anything, you’re running an application in an environment for which it was not tested or intended.

The Windows API is a mammoth beast which has developed over the course of many years. It has grown by extension with backward-compatibility in mind. Any third-party implementation (see WINE) has a massive task ahead of them. However, if Apple does indeed have direct access to the API definition, it does provide a significant advantage over other implementations.

Expecting Windows apps to run natively, flawlessly on OS X is unrealistic. Running on identical processor architectures does nothing to span the API and functionality chasm of software built upon software.

]]> By: Ryan Parman http://www.forevergeek.com/2006/04/macos_to_run_windows_aps_natively/#comment-31938 Ryan Parman Sat, 22 Apr 2006 21:50:30 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/?p=2927#comment-31938 Dvorak and Cringely are idiots. Never listen to them because they don't know what they're talking about. If you want to read from someone who's tuned-in to Apple, check out John Gruber at daringfireball.net. Dvorak and Cringely are idiots. Never listen to them because they don’t know what they’re talking about. If you want to read from someone who’s tuned-in to Apple, check out John Gruber at daringfireball.net.

]]> By: n8han http://www.forevergeek.com/2006/04/macos_to_run_windows_aps_natively/#comment-31937 n8han Sat, 22 Apr 2006 00:41:12 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/?p=2927#comment-31937 I wish someone would pay me to make up stuff like Dvorak and Cringely. Don't bother with the research (who HASN'T heard about how hard it's been to make Wine?), just try to say something provocative. I wish someone would pay me to make up stuff like Dvorak and Cringely. Don’t bother with the research (who HASN’T heard about how hard it’s been to make Wine?), just try to say something provocative.

]]> By: +1 http://www.forevergeek.com/2006/04/macos_to_run_windows_aps_natively/#comment-31936 +1 Sat, 22 Apr 2006 00:04:34 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/?p=2927#comment-31936 +1 horsesh** +1 horsesh**

]]> By: racketboy http://www.forevergeek.com/2006/04/macos_to_run_windows_aps_natively/#comment-31935 racketboy Fri, 21 Apr 2006 23:46:25 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/?p=2927#comment-31935 what about the virus/spyware issue? If it can run Windows apps, isn't that open the door for all the bad stuff as well? what about the virus/spyware issue?
If it can run Windows apps, isn’t that open the door for all the bad stuff as well?

]]> By: Will Rickards http://www.forevergeek.com/2006/04/macos_to_run_windows_aps_natively/#comment-31934 Will Rickards Fri, 21 Apr 2006 22:50:01 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/?p=2927#comment-31934 Complete horsesh**. Do they have any idea the complexity and time it would take for apple to implement the full windows api to runs windows app natively???? Heck the wine implementation isn't even complete and they been at it for what? 5 years? There is no mystery to bootcamp, apple devs probably already had something similar, saw people were trying to hack to get that functionality, so they released a tool to make it easy for users and stop them hacking about. Complete horsesh**.
Do they have any idea the complexity and time it would take for apple to implement the full windows api to runs windows app natively???? Heck the wine implementation isn’t even complete and they been at it for what? 5 years?

There is no mystery to bootcamp, apple devs probably already had something similar, saw people were trying to hack to get that functionality, so they released a tool to make it easy for users and stop them hacking about.

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