site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com Organization: Ti Systems User-agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) Greetings, Nils _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... Derick Centeno schrieb: Can Intel based Macs now run AIX created executables within OS X? I really doubt it. After all, it's not just a question of which processor architecture is being used, but also (in a sense even more so) which operating system is being used. Just as you can't run stuff compiled for Linux on x86 under Mac OS X on x86, I guess you won't be able to run AIX stuff either. Now, of course this problem can be solved. The FreeBSD folks, for example, have a kind of "Linux compatibility layer" in place, which - once enabled and the required libs are installed - will let you run (x86) Linux executables on (x86) FreeBSD boxes. However, this is due to the fact that this "Linux compatibility layer" was intentionally created, it's not there "by design" because both OSes are using the same processor architecture. A compatibility layer like that doesn't exist in Mac OS X, so you'd have to create one before you can run your AIX executables, I guess. ;-) This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com