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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?"
... if nothing runs at all, everything runs equally well.
"Consider yourself a member of a virtual corporation with Mr. Torvalds as your Chief Executive Officer." - Linux Advocac
Transitive Software:
1. Vaporware
2. Miracle
4. Coyboy Neal
Personally, I vote it's just Coyboy Neal at it again.
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Does this mean I can finally get WINE to work under Windows?
I am Bennett Haselton! I am Bennett Haselton!
allows any software application binary to run on any processor/operating system
My wife said, "Give me a good reason why you need to keep those things! There's not enough room in the closet to put my shoes."
Now I can use this as an excuse to hold on to my Commodore 64 stuff.
That they claim their software is fast but yet their web site is reaaaaaaaaaaly slow
Given the illusive nature of their product, it is especially incredible that they were able to get five of the world's largest computer OEM's on board so early.
Now you can run any software, anywhere, with no speed hit (relative to a 4.77 MHz PC XT or a C= 64 or a 512K Mac) on hardware from these everyday major name brand OEM's:
Billy-Bo's Bayou's only Computer OEM
Wang Tu Short Compuder OEM of China
DR CLEMENT OKUN NIGERIA BUSINESS COMPUTER MANUFACTURERS
San Rio Hello Kitty Laptop Division
TransitivePC & Electronics
Act now, because supplies of this software are very limited, and once this run is completed, no more can be made (because their damn drunk coders crashed a pickup truck into their RAID array)!
maybe because it's not vapor anymore ?
it's already evaporated !
The world belongs to those who get up early. - I'm far from being the king of Earth then
(1) Uhm, err, the current version only runs Pacman, which required some modifications to the binary
(2) only on Windows XP, but we're working on the Win 98 version.
(3) The technology used allows for theoretical performance equal or even exceeding the native hardware. This will work in next version, "FlyingPig 6.0".
sounds like this was written in some new programming language, perhaps one based on Magic.
So how much mana would I need tapped to run Photoshop in Linux?
my pet machine
So if it went from glossy brochues to vaporware, would it be product sublimation?
Kierthos
Mr. Hu is not a ninja.
He just translated it to another language on the fly without most people even noticing. You must be a power user.
-- You're too stupid to be an atheist.
See, the domain already vanished...
I bet that webserver was emulated. No perfomance loss..ha!
Well, looking at their website, I'd say the vapour is not going to hold -- otherwise they'd have their webserver emulate a way faster machine with a significantly faster Internet connection... ;-)
Confirmed! I saw a beta test of this product. It was used during the filming of Independence Day. They successfully used the program to upload and execute a virus from a Mac to a never-before-seen Alien computer system. It was even able to display graphics without having prior experience with the displays in question!
Come play Moral Decay!
All of you naysayers take note:
This is not vaporware! I am on the beta test team for this product. In fact, right now, I just fired up a copy of Duke Nukem Forever on OS/2. Works like a champ.
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Er. I resen^Hmble that :/
Hmm... well, to prove their product actually works (and to confuse the hell out of Netcraft) they could host their site on IIS running under OS X.