Re: [openppc] OPENOSX: WINTEL PC Emulator

[Troy Benjegerdes <hozer@drgw.net>]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 03:43:44PM +0100, test1@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi
> There is a new "PC Emulator" program for APPLE OS X from OpenOSX Inc called "WINTEL". This PC emulator program can use multiple G4 CPUs to emulate single Pentium IV CPU at high speed.
> Is it possible to port this product to Linux for PowerPC?
> 
> http://www.openosx.com/wintel/index.html

Weren't these the guys that ripped off the fink port of Gimp to OS X and 
resold it without giving any credit?

http://fink.sourceforge.net/pr/openosx.php
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/11/14/1911229&mode=thread
http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/11114/125/7038861/


I'd say it's definitely *technically* possible to port 'WinTel' to Linux..  
the question is whether these guys want to, and whether they actually own
the code to 'WinTel' or not.

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