Universal Emulators Return

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?"

Comments

OT: where is that from?

[Bill, Shooter of Bul]

I remeber the quote "Tortoises all the way Down" as being from a women that believed that the earth was supported on th backs of tortises or something like that. Some one asked what the tortises were standing on and she replies "Tortoises all the way down". Where Do I remeber that from? Was in in one of Richard Feyneman's books, or do I remember it from history class ( it was a native american belief that the earth was actually a giant tortoises shell)? Or maybe it was from both.

tortoises Re:OT: where is that from?

[samjam]

I read that in "Surely you're joking Mr Feynman"

"You think you're clever don't you? It's tortoises all the way down"

Sam

I think not.

[geordie_loz]

About a minute out by my reconing.