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Native Windows PE File Loading on OS X?

Posted by Zonk on from the to-what-purpose-and-determination dept.

ozmanjusri writes "Coders working on Wine for Mac have found that the Mac loader has gained its own undocumented ability to load and understand Windows Portable Executable (PE) files. They found PE loading capabilities in Leopard that weren't there in Tiger. Further dissection showed that Apple is masking references to 'Win' and 'PE' in the dll, which means it's not an accidental inclusion. Is Apple planning native PE execution within OS X?"

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  1. More compatible than Vista by syousef · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Wouldn't it be funny if OSX ended up better able to load old exes than Vista.

    I'm no fan of OSX, but nor am I a fan of Vista. Unpopular as the view is I don't think Linux is "ready for the desktop" either. SO I'm going to be one of these sad people that clings to XP for as long as they can. The bottom line is I can't stand Vista for its restrictions (Microsoft has been behaving very badly in the last couple of years) and I can't stand OSX because I've suffered badly many years ago due to Apple's tactics and my own naivety as a child. I use XP at work and at home begrudingly. As far as I'm concerned the more cross compatibility the better since less of the apps I've spent time finding and learning to use will die a premature death.

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  2. Re:noooo FP by devjj · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I'm an Apple fan, and I also happen to be a software developer. I use Linux regularly, an have built many PCs by hand.

    Save the stereotypes for Digg, please.

  3. mod parent up please by Jerry+Smith · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    +1, Insightful. No modpoints here to dispense.

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