As I told a relative when he started running Tiger on his G4: 'There's next to no sunlight between the two. And in terms of just out-of-the-box networking between Macs & PCs, the vanilla user version of Tiger practically eliminated any coughs, chokes and hangups between Apple's SMB protocol and Microsoft's. A device file resides in the Mac OS X file structure, usually in the /dev directory, and represents a peripheral device, such as a terminal emulator window. I have done a little with Apple's X11 distribution - of which on this Forum you'll find scads of discussion and info - in OS X, and I agree it does make up the difference between the two ( or is it three now ? ) platforms. Virtual machine imaging Mac OS X has its own legal issues: the only 'Ten Version' as I like to phrase it where Apple's lawyers would be inclined to look the other way if someone virtualised it is (drum roll please) OS X 10.4 Tiger server. Those that exist for the direction you're choosing, even the commercial ones, have their own issues and are generally considered not worth the time money or effort. Operating system emulators tend to favor going the other way - Mac to Windows. vMac is an open source MAC OS emulator for a number of Operating Systems such as. Actually, this software is part of the VMware Academy series which has a full list of guides you can see on the Index page. As a long time Mac user (work and home, classic and OS X), I agree with pludi. The Best Free MAC Emulator Software for Windows.
