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Windows Emulator For Macintosh?

Posted by Cliff on Monday February 12, 2001 @11:06AM from the who-threw-this-apple-into-the-window? dept.

kossico asks: "For any Mac users that have needed to run Windows(tm) applications, Virtual PC has probably helped them a lot. Does anyone know of any free/opensource projects that attempt this on Mac a la Wine? If not, who wants to start one?"

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Clarification by penguinboy · 2001-02-12 08:54 · Score: 3

On a Mac, you need more than just a Windows emulator (which Wine Is Not). Since the Mac OS runs on m68k/PPC, an i386 processor emulator is also needed to get the binaries to actually run.

Of course, I imagine you could use Wine as-is on the Intel port of Darwin.