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Date:      Tue, 29 Jul 2003 19:42:09 -0600
From:      Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC <chad@shire.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and OSX applications
Message-ID:  <086672B2-C22F-11D7-ADBF-0003931BED80@shire.net>
In-Reply-To: <A84BBAE4-C228-11D7-AF48-0030656DD690@foolishgames.com>

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On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 07:33  PM, Rod Person wrote:

> Today I went to an Adobe seminar. All demos where done on OS X. I kept 
> think that it looked a lot like KDE and of course I got to thinking...
>
> Can applications such as Acrobat and Illustrator run on FreeBSD?

Of course, there is the problem of CPUs.  FreeBSD is x86 (and alpha) 
(for now) and OS X is a PPC processor.  So besides all the libraries 
and stuff like Quartz that you would need to emulate, you would need to 
emulate the CPU

Chad
also an OSX client/FreeBSD server user



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