[Vermonter]

This should prove interesting.

Click the source URL to get to the links mentioned in the article

[jmq]

I gotta invite these guys over to fix the blinking clock on my VCR......

[freeangel]

save for later

[Golden Eagle]

a Russian hacker known as Maxxuss cracked the encrypted security layer

Too bad Apple won't put something like this out, but running software from Russian hackers is not something I would recommend.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I hear that in Afghanistan you can be executed for doing that.

[Psycho_Bunny]

To me, the most interesting part of this article is the proper use of the word "hackers".

Usually, it's used where "crackers" is the correct word.

[lmr]

With enough of a CPU, anything can be emulated. This is just one more example.

[rintense]

Sweet!

[Revolting cat!]

Meaningless. Hackers are so 70s, so 80s, so 90s. I'm on a browser now, as is everyone reading this, who cares what bloated OS is running under it? Perl, Python, Ruby, C++, C#? Do these masturbators have nothing better to do than invent new programming languages? Bring back the WANG word processor to do all the other things.

[Liberal Classic]

One computer to rule them all, and in the Darkness bind them!

The new Intel Macs don't boot from BIOS, they use Intel's Extensible Firmware Interface. The patche that allow Windows to run on the new Intel Macs does little more than to provide a second stage boot loader to launch the NT kernel. The same with Linux. Linux already supports EFI on Itanium. People are already running several distros on Intel Macs, including Debian, Knoppix Live CD, and Gentoo. Redhat has announced future support for the platform. On the Windows side, the question is whether future 32-bit versions of Vista will support EFI booting, since this feature is not in the current beta releases. The rumor mill says 32-bit Vista won't support it in the upcoming release.

Also, dig this groovy screen of a Mac, booting Knoppix, running VMWare, hosting XP: TRIMMED TO SAVE BANDWITDH, CLICK ME

[BJungNan]

Now why in the heck would anyone want to run Mac software on a PC? For that matter, why would anyone want to run a Mac anywhere?

[dennisw]

bttt

[higgmeister]

Hackers boot a Dell with Mac OS X

Why?

[hedgetrimmer]

NEW YORK--The PowerPC alliance of IBM, Motorola and Apple Computer will try to build momentum for 1996 starting this week with a series of developments, including the long-awaited debut of IBM's first desktop systems, Apple Computer's initial PCI-based machines and product introductions or demonstrations from the likes of Zenith Data Systems (ZDS), Canon, FirePower Systems and others.

While the new hardware will be built around the RISC-endowed PowerPC 604, the PowerPC 603e and PowerPC 601, still to be seen is how much the PowerPC mainstream applications base has been improved--either by efforts involving Windows NT or by moving x86 applications to the platform through software emulation. Several software and hardware options to run x86 applications have been explored by IBM and Motorola, with some industry observers hoping for a surprise announcement this week. IBM still expects OS/2 for the PowerPC to be ready by September.

With Microsoft last week announcing availability of Windows NT 3.51, PowerPC systems vendors will begin bundling the operating system with shipments. Still, it may not be a panacea. While Windows NT may be on the upswing, much of the market is still Intel-based and other RISC competitors to the PowerPC have a big lead in available applications.

At the Computex show earlier this month members of the Taiwan NewPC Consortium indicated that PowerPC-optimized versions of Microsoft's Office suite of applications are still not ready to ship because of problems related to the Visual C++ programming tools.

[thoughtomator]

Can you say "unsupported configuration"? Good luck running software on that.