For all the people out there speculating on when Apple is going to allow Windows apps too run natively inside Mac OS X, this is for you: OS/2 - A better Windows than Windows. .
Does no one remember this? Seriously, one of the big killers of OS/2 was that it's best apps were all Windows apps. I see Boot Camp as just an Apple sanctioned boot loader that won't stomp on OS X. People were doing it anyway, so why not sell a few more boxes?
It's nice to think of all the grand virtulization technologies, but I really don't find them that interesting. It is a new label on an otherwise old technology. All this hype so that you can run multiple virtual computers on a single box. Why the hype? Because they are mostly running an OS that needs some kind of backup OS to take over for it. It's a good robust solution, but let's not forget why it is there. It's taking up the slack for reliability from the OS. It happens to work a lot better now that we have all these CPUs to throw at it, but it's still a fairly old idea.
Inspired by www.theappleblog.com/20...
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