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Mac OS X Apps on Zaurus

Posted by pudge on from the step-this-way dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller reports progress in the mySTEP project to run Mac OS X applications on the Sharp Zaurus. Though not yet ready for production, the newest release brings more maturity and features, and Dr. Schaller invites anyone interested in integrating mobile, low-cost, handheld computers with Mac OS X-based IT applications to contact the project. In particular, Dr. Schaller would like to locate someone interested in developing and contributing a new menu system (NSMenuView, NSMenuItemCell) to the project."

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  1. Re:cocoa apps? by Meowing · · Score: 4, Informative
    Wouldn't that require a reverse engineered implementation of apple's APIs?

    Well, Cocoa is really just a newer release of OpenStep, so the guts of it aren't anything altogether new or super secret. Actually it looks like the Zaurus thing is mostly a port of GNUstep, so it's not even entirely new stuff.

    Personally, I'd be more intrested on being able to run OS X apps on desktop intel linux

    You can sort of do that already. Obviously, you would want to avoid Mac-specific things in your program, but there should still be plenty of common ground.

  2. Re:*sigh* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    NeXT & Sun created the OpenStep API from the API's of NEXTSTEP Mach (the ancestor of Mac OS X & Cocoa). There was OpenStep for Solaris, OpenStep for Windows and OPENSTEP Mach, the "reference" operating system for SPARC, HP PA-RISC, NeXT hardware (68K) and x86 (486+).

    OpenStep Solaris was maintained by Sun. NeXT handled the other versions.