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Universal Emulators Return

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the and-soon-lead-to-helium-3 dept.

webmilhouse writes "Wired has an article about Transitive Corporation that claims their software "allows any software application binary to run on any processor/operating system" without any performance hit. That would allow any program written for Windows to run on Linux or Mac, and vice-versa, which Wired likened to digital alchemy. The Transitive software is supposed to be released today. What do you think, vaporware or miracle?"

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  1. Re:Any program? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Like my dad used to say:

    "Something like this would mean the end of the world as we know it.

    And last I checked, the world was still here as it always was.

    So go f yourself."

  2. Re:Not Vapor and not the arrival of Christ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    The Transitive software is supposed to be released today. What do you think, vaporware or miracle?

    What a retarded question. If we're going to find out in a few hours anyway, what is the point in speculating about it?

  3. Re:OT: where is that from? by AndroidCat · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Many religions and cultures believe that it's BS all the way down.

    --
    One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.