[vox-tech] Why Mac but not LInux?

[Jeff Newmiller]

The OSX API includes many interfaces that are not POSIX compliant. Mac programmers almost never limit themselves to the POSIX subset of available APIs when writing Mac software. As for why we use Wine more often than emulating OSX APIs, I don't know. You want to write such a beast?
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Darth Borehd <darth.borehd at gmail.com> wrote:

>I see a lot of games that have Mac versions but not LInux versions. 
>Why?
>Wouldn't it be trivial to get the same program to run on Linux as they
>run
>on Mac because they are both POSIX based?
>
>But even if a company is not going to bother with a Linux version, why
>is
>it easier to use WINE to play the Windows version than it is to find a
>way
>to emulate the Mac version?
>
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