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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. F1r5t p0st by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FIRST POST!

  2. 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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  3. 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.

  4. Offtopic; Slashdot's fucked up RSS feeds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So I signed up to slashdot's rss feed http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot and enjoyed it, but then noticed some stories weren't ending up in my rss reader while they did end up on the slashdot front page (games in particular). So I went to search, opened up an article in each category, and then saved the rss urls, here are some examples.

    http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotApache
    http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews
    http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotFeatures
    http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotGames
    http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotGeeksInSpace
    http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotInterviews
    http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotLinux
    http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotSearch

    Apple was in there (as were others), but it seems that apple articles hit the front page anyway, so I just got dupes. And thats the problem. When something ends up in several categories, it always gets duped. I'm not changing my rss reader, and im on a modem so downloading all of these rss feeds constantly is a drain on limited resources to begin with. Why the hell isn't there just a simple "all articles" feed? Am I doing something wrong, or is this one of the many ways slashdot is fucked up for no good reason (like not being able to comment in articles you have moderated).

    Sincerely,
    Anonymous Coward
  5. mod parent up please by Jerry+Smith · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    +1, Insightful. No modpoints here to dispense.

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