Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 264

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 264. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Lines that never meet in 2006 originated in Russia.

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Parallels

Lines that never meet (parallel lines) in 2006 (when it was first released for Mac OS X) originated in Russia (where its products were first developed).

2: Roman 995 perhaps with ceramics from 2007, now part of an HP descendant.

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VMware

Roman 995 perhaps (could be VM in Roman numerals) with ceramics (ware) from 2007 (when it was first released for Mac OS X), now part of an HP descendant (it’s now part of Broadcom, which originated from Hewlett Packard in 1961, as HP Associates).

3: Emulate and host thanks to Fabrice’s flightless bird from 2003.

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UTM

Emulate and host (it’s both an emulator and virtualiser, and based on QEMU) thanks to Fabrice’s (QEMU was originally developed by Fabrice Bellard) flightless bird (the Emu, the origin of QEMU) from 2003 (when the first code for QEMU was published).

The common factor

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These are all virtualisers for the Mac.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.