Tuesday, October 19, 2004 - Posts

Microsoft and Dual-Core Processors...

Last minute news... Microsoft has decided that multicore chips will be considered a single unit, so the License politics will not be modified.

Good choice, I was terrible worried for this MS decision, expecially after the decisions taken by company like Oracle and IBM (dual-core, two license... bleah!! ).

CherryOS is a strange cocktail?? :)

When I saw the CherryOS announce some weeks ago, a Mac emulator capable of running Mac OS X on a Windows PC at 80% of the CPU speed, my first thinks was that it could be a fake...

This morning I've see this article on Wired News that said exactly what I've thinked: CherryOS is likely PearPC wrapped in a different package. They are using plenty of PearPC code, and have done a poor job hiding it... To demonstrate this, Sebastian Ballas, PearPC's lead developer, said a screenshot of CherryOS shows a variable named "SPIRO MULTIMAX 3000" a nonsensical term Ballas claims to have invented for use in PearPC. Amazing...

Congratulations to all the CherryOS Team... great idea, maybe now you can open a bar and launch your new cocktail!