Intel OS X... I'm late to the party

[Walter Vaughan]

Fairlight wrote:

> I don't get it.  There's fP for FBSD.  OS/X is FBSD under the hood.  Why
> would it not run natively on the same x86 hardware?

Under the hood it's freeBSD userland, but the lowest level kernel is Mach, so 
the closest thing that OSX represents is Hurd with FreeBSD userland and 
middleware, with a X-Windows replacement called Aqua.

I think I tried to run filePro FreeBSD binary on a MacOSX-Intel developement 
machine and it looked like it didn't know what to do with it. Kinda like it 
couldn't use any magic to determine what type of file it was. What didn't help 
either is that the MacOSX was based upon FreeBSD 5.X, which has different API's 
from freeBSD4.8 which is the version that my filePro binary was based upon. 
Since MacOS-X doesn't have a COMPAT-4 layer I didn't really expect it to work.

On the other hand, it *should* be trival to create a character based version of 
filePro for both workstations or X-Server's. That no one has ponied up $$$ to do 
so is another issue.

Too bad filePro's not opensource. Could get a Google Summer of Code intern to do 
all the heavy lifting.