>It just occurred to me:  are there any efforts (or is it feasable) to
>develop Mac OS X compatibility?  Given the Darwin foundation, it should
>be possible, no?  The benefit of taking advantage of various commercial
>applications available for Mac OS X (but not for Darwin or *nix in
>general) should be obvious.

there was some talk of this at the boston usenix in 2001.  subsequent
to that, COMPAT_MACH and EXEC_MACHO were put into the tree.  i *think*
the only barrier to running macos x and/or darwin binaries is the lack
of the mach system calls that they use.

>Or is this a stupid question, and if so, why?

no, not at all.  imagine being able to run macos 9 as a process under
netbsd.  :)

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