Apple has joined Bapco, a software / hardware benchmarking consortium largely populated by companies making Windows hardware or applications. This has led to not only rumor-mill arousal, but also platform partisan arousal (see the comments here).
Bickering about OS superiority aside, what this is showing is that we are now arriving at processor speeds, RAM levels, etc. that will support multiple OSes running simultaneously on a box.
As that happens, there will be more utilities that allow cut and pasting and other forms of communications between applications on different OSes on the same box.
Then, perhaps, we will end up with applications that are less reliant on OS structure and limitations.
Would it be a pain to have multiple OSes? I don't know ... is it a pain to have both AM and FM?
Right now, one could argue that Microsoft XP has enough code in it to include DOS, Win 3.1, Win 95/98/Me, Win 2000 and XP. So, perhaps I'm already running multiple OSes. Vista promises to add another layer to that cake.
OS X and Linux builds are so much smaller by comparison that adding them to the mix isn't that much of a hit. And as the browser becomes more of the focus, how much bloat do we need to support?
Photo: R Beaty
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