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 Originally Posted by PreMium
I was also wondering about the underlying hardware.
I would guess the Pre technically could run the iPhone's OS, and vice versa. From a computing hardware standpoint, there's almost no difference between the two devices .The iPhone 3GS and the Pre use the exact same CPU core, the Cortex-A8. They also have very similar GPU's in them, two different models within the same Anandtech SGX family. Finally, they both have the same amount of RAM, 256 MB. I can see no technical reason why either phone shouldn't be able to run either OS.
There may well be human-imposed reasons, though. The desktop version of OSX looks for Apple signatures on various hardware items, and if it doesn't find them (or at least spoofs of them), it won't install. I would guess the mobile version probably does the same thing.
Originally Posted by PreMium
Who would have thought that my Mac could natively run Windows and who would have thought that my Dell Mini 9 could Run OS X?
Well, to be fair, as soon as Apple switched to Intel hardware, it became rather obvious that Mac's going forward would be able run Windows, and that PC's would be able to run OSX. At that moment, the Mac became a PC that just happened to have an Apple logo stamped on the outside. The only significant difference between what's labeled a Mac and what's labeled a PC these days, besides that logo, is what OS is being run. Under the hood, they're identical, for all intents and purposes.
I laughed so hard I almost blew my drink out my nose when Steve Jobs announced "Good news! We won't be increasing prices with the change to Intel." Gee, that was mighty big of you, Stevie-boy, considering that Intel CPU's are far less expensive for you to buy than those G5's you were using previously.
Apple's computer prices were always ridiculous, but at least they had somewhat of an excuse when they were using relatively costly proprietary CPU's. Now that they're using the same stuff as everyone else, there's no excuse whatsoever for a Mac to cost more than a PC. But somehow they still do. And we're supposed to accept that as "good news". The "We'll pay through the nose and like it, as long as it's shiny and has rounded corners" mindset that that company is able to instill in their fans is simply astounding. Next to the church and McDonald's, Apple has the greatest marketing in the history of the world.
Originally Posted by PreMium
I'm glad somebody was willing to try.
Agreed. But it's important to understand nobody actually "tried". People took the Yoda approach of "do, or do not; there is no try," and they made it work. They took a good hard look at the Mac as a machine, and determined what it would take to get Windows to run on it, and they took a good hard look at OSX as a system, and determined what it would take to get it to run on a PC. It was a concerted, deliberate effort, on both fronts.
Originally Posted by PreMium
I appreciated the education about the difference between UNIX and LINUX. So yeah, I can see it's probably not gonna happen anytime soon. <Grin> It was nice hoping while it lasted. LOL. I just loaded the Classic emulator and it works better than it did when it first came out in June. At least I can run a few of my old Palm OS apps for now. 
Yeah, Classic has been steadily improving. It's still got a ways to go (Hotsync, more stability with sound, etc.), but it's shaping up nicely. It's almost a shame that by the time they get it finished, we'll probably already have most of the apps we want as native WebOS apps.
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