Ladies and Gentlemen, the Pigs have left the building! And they WERE flying.
Back in the day it was a decided fact of nature that IBM PCs would never run Macintosh software and that Macintosh computers would never run DOS. When Microsoft introduced its “version” of a GUI based operating system the world shrugged, chuckled politely to itself, and continued on. The paradigm was just unbreakable, Windows and Mac would NEVER live side by side in harmony.
Over the years there have been programs that would allow Mac formatted diskettes to be read by Windows based systems. Windows emulators were developed for Mac. But the war never escalated past the small skirmishes around peripheral access and architecture for the most part. Software companies developed software for Mac based and Windows based personal computers. This was the decided order of things.
But then changes were made. Apple moved away from the Motorola processors (680×0) in 2002. And in 2005 Apple made the next move away from IBM and the PowerPC processors for an Intel x86 based processor. A Macintosh OS that would run on the home turf of Windows processor of choice; the hacks were going to be inevitable. By buddy calls his OSX Tiger installation on his PC a hackintosh. But whatever you want to call it, a brave new world has been born.
Will the old world survive? A “tri-booting” PC (running Linux, OSX, and Windows), unthinkable in the recent past, is now touching our world.
To try your hand at a “mactel hackintosh” visit the OSx86 Project for the frontline in saga.
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