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Running Mac OS X on a PC
Name: Marshe Date: January 25, 2004 at 07:21:56 Pacific OS: XP Pro CPU/Ram: Athlon XP 2000, 512 mb pc
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This has probably been asked about a thouand times but... can I run Mac OS X Panther on a pc, or on Virtual PC 5.2 for windows?
Name: jorcam Date: January 25, 2004 at 19:10:39 Pacific
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No you can't run Panther on a PC. Virtual PC(The Mac version)is an application to run Windows apps on a Mac. So the final answer is: NO
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Response Number 2
Name: drewthecad Date: January 27, 2004 at 21:36:24 Pacific
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macs and pc have entirely different ways (at a hardware level) of processing system events (i.e. - the memory architecture, not the memory itself, that is the same, but the way mem. is handled on the bus is completely different). Macs run a processor which is actually based on the RISC architecture, where as PC's run x86 processors. as windows is not compiled at the kernal level to run on macs RISC processor and vice versa, it is unfortunately not possible.
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Response Number 3
Name: Sord Date: January 28, 2004 at 13:58:23 Pacific
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If you are a programmer, you can always give the port of Darwin to the x86 a try. I don't know what stage its at right now though.
Darwin is the OS X kernel btw.
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Response Number 4
Name: in-effect Date: February 5, 2004 at 05:01:40 Pacific
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Roffle. I have considered the same thing myself in the past though, but only as a novelty.
You could pretend by getting a Mac with OSX installed, then put VNC server on it. Connect a PC to it and then connect via the VNC client et voila - you have OSX on your PC!! hehehe...
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Response Number 5
Name: kevinjk4 Date: February 10, 2004 at 16:25:01 Pacific
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I was just wondering if anyone knew of any plans for either a virtual pc for windows or an emulator of os x for windows in the near future??
thanks.
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Response Number 6
Name: Captin Doom Date: February 19, 2004 at 06:58:18 Pacific
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yea there is a virtual pc for windows, so can i use this to install mac osx? or should i get another programe?
Summary: Just to let everyone know that wants to run Mac OS X on a PC, it is now possible (though very slow) because of the efforts of PearPC! I'm installing OS X right now! http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/ And ...
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