Transitive?

[Dennis Brown]

Richard,

That is what they do --take an app running on one OS and one chip and  
make it run on another OS and another chip.  No trivial task, but  
they can do it.  The face of software development may be about to  
open up to all platforms, and the face of hardware development  
opening up to be released from legacy restrictions.  And as usual  
Apple will lead the way for the whole industry.

Dennis


On Jun 6, 2005, at 1:10 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> On Jun 6, 2005, at 10:22 AM, John Ridge wrote:
> >
> > BBC News reports "Technology news site The Register also reports
> > that Apple has licensed technology from a company called
> > Transitive which makes software that makes it easier to port
> > programs on to different chip architectures"
> >
> > If the current rumours are correct, is Revolution stymied? If,
> > by  magic, apps developed on any platform can be run without
> > change on any other, what need is there for cross-platform
> > tools like Rev?
> >
> > Still a fascinating IDE, but it's lost a major selling point.....
>
> Hardly.  This hurts Microsoft and their VirtualPC more than anyone  
> else.
>
> For those of us who design multi-platform applications this  
> technology would seem to have little if any impact:  emulating a  
> chip architecture is one thing, emulating an OS quite another.
>
> And even if it could emulate the OS (oh the copyright issues there)  
> do Mac users really want Win-designed apps, or Win users want Mac- 
> designed apps?
>
> There's a lot more to multi-platform design and development than  
> microchip instruction sets.....
>
> --
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World Media Corporation
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