In a recent mailing list message, Interesting Behavior of OS X, Steven Edwards says that Leopard contains an undocumented loader for Portable Executables, a type of file used in 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows. After more investigation, he discovered that Leopard's own loader tries to look for Windows DLL files when a Windows application is opened. That means that all Apple has to do is add a new application layer that would allow Mac OS X to load Windows applications natively.
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