IMac running with a little more knowledge
Jeff
part
(read some books on how to convert to a Mac from a PC), I really
(repeat
"really") like it -- my son was absolutely correct in making the
switch.
As a retired IBM Researcher, I had raised him on PCs (he is now an
MD), but
now he has converted me to the Mac -- never thought it would happen.
The Mac is based on Linux, which was it's origin in history. Wine
was a
way to run Windows on Linux, which once Mac went to the Intel
processor,
became possible to use to run "some" PC applications direct on a Mac
without
an emulator, dual boot, or whatever. This interests me very much
since the
only PC application I will be running is MT4, as I will have Mac
applications covering everything else I do, which is mostly email
anyway.
But Wine was produced by CodeWeavers, and is still reported to be at
that site by Google.
However it just won't come up on the Internet, and I wonder if they
are
still in business.
Does anyone here know if they still exist? I would sure like to
check out
MT4 on Wine, as it would be a big help in my total conversion to Mac.
Since you say MT4 should run on Linux (server problem but not client
problem?), there is a real possibility that it would run under Wine --
if I
could find it, or get a copy of it (I always pay for software if it is
for
sale -- I don't run bootleg software). I know I could run PC
programs under a VM virtual machine, or via a dual boot, but would
prefer to
go totally on the Mac if possible, reserving running real PC code only
if no
other choice.