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Date:      Sat, 17 Feb 2001 23:36:27 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        "P. Wooten" <haus_09@yahoo.com>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: OSX apps
Message-ID:  <20010217233627.B95368@mollari.cthul.hu>
In-Reply-To: <20010215211113.16099.qmail@web3103.mail.yahoo.com>; from haus_09@yahoo.com on Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 01:11:13PM -0800
References:  <20010215211113.16099.qmail@web3103.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 01:11:13PM -0800, P. Wooten wrote:
>   Dear Sir or Madam,
> Is it possible to run OSX applications such as
> Groovemaker on FreeBSD or through a Mach emulator? Can
> BSD run OSX applications? Thank you for your time.
>  Sincerely,
>  Phillip Earl Wooten

The short answer is "no". OS X runs on the PowerPC CPU, and you can't
run binaries written for another CPU unless you use some kind of
emulator (at which point you're not running the binary natively,
you're emulating another OS)

Kris

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