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Originally Posted by rbooth
Apple's solution, it's interesting to note is they have a couple of applications that when installed allow their Mac computers to emulate Windows and run Windows software.
And there are also several remote connectivity applications that allow Android and Apple and Windows applications to access and run applications on a the other parties machine provided that the other machine is running and connected over the internet. Cloud based applications will probably eliminate most of the considerations about Operating Systems sometime in the future.
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Ehh, slight nit pick. Apple's only got one solution and it technically isn't emulation. No hardware is mimicked, everything is run directly on the processor, just like any other app. Apple has bootcamp, which allows you to install Windows, and when you boot select either Windows or Mac OS X. Now, then you have the Wine based solutions from various third parties, like PlayOnMac, etc. All those are is API abstraction layers, adding support for the APIs the apps need, onto an OS that doesn't normally have them. Next up is stuff like VMWare and Parallels, which in the instance they are on MacOS, they're not truly emulation either, but rather virtualization. Virtualization just tricks the guest OS into thinking it is running on different hardware, and encapsulates it on the host OS. Doing it this way helps speed things up greatly compared to emulation, as most of the commands are still done fairly natively on the host.