>From: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
>To: tech-misc@netbsd.org
>Subject: Re: mac os x compat?
>Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 16:48:37 -0400
>
> >It just occurred to me:  are there any efforts (or is it feasable) to
> >develop Mac OS X compatibility?  Given the Darwin foundation, it should
> >be possible, no?  The benefit of taking advantage of various commercial
> >applications available for Mac OS X (but not for Darwin or *nix in
> >general) should be obvious.
>
>there was some talk of this at the boston usenix in 2001.  subsequent
>to that, COMPAT_MACH and EXEC_MACHO were put into the tree.  i *think*
>the only barrier to running macos x and/or darwin binaries is the lack
>of the mach system calls that they use.
>
> >Or is this a stupid question, and if so, why?
>
>no, not at all.  imagine being able to run macos 9 as a process under
>netbsd.  :)
>

The only problem is getting the proprietary mac os x libraries to run the 
applications.... I suppose the libraries for darwin will be available 
though.

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