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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. Vapour. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Seriously.

  2. Let me be the first to welcome... by bobetov · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ... our vaporware overlords!

    No f'n way this is legit.

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  3. Welcome by h00manist · · Score: 0, Redundant

    hope it works /me performs rain dance

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  4. It runs on magic by funkdid · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I'm calling bullsh!t on this one. Processor differences being what they are I don't see this working. All other attempts at this have been so-so, to make a product like this "whithout a processing hit" sounds like this was written in some new programming language, perhaps one based on Magic.

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  5. Riiiight by Gyorg_Lavode · · Score: 0, Redundant
    "What do you think, vaporware or miracle?"

    Is that a rhetorical question?

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  6. Re:Any program? by skraps · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Let's see.. I want to word this carefully. After careful review of the claims, I have determined:

    VAPROWARE!
    VAPROWARE! VAPROWARE!
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  7. response by mortation · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Vapor ware I bet. Sounds to good to be true!