Editing CherryOS (section)

===Background and development===
On October 12, 2004, the [[emulator]] CherryOS was announced by Maui X-Stream (MXS),<ref name="cososweetensmac"/>  a [[startup company]] based in [[Lahaina, Hawaii]]<ref name="coslstarbulletin"/> and a subsidiary of Paradise Television.<ref name="coslstarbulletin"/>  At the time MXS was best known for developing software for [[video streaming]], particularly their VX3 encoder.<ref name="cosmmexpress"/>  As a new emulator intended to allow [[Mac OS X]] to be utilized on [[x86]] computer architecture,<ref name="cosmmexpress"/> CherryOS was advertised as working on [[Windows 98]], [[Windows 2000]] or [[Windows XP]],<ref name="cososweetensmac"/> with features such as allowing files to be dragged from PC to Mac, the creation of multiple profiles, and support for networking and sound.<ref name="cosktechspot"/> With development led by MXS employee and [[software developer]] [[Arben Kryeziu]],<ref name="cosmmexpress"/>  CherryOS was made available for pre-order<ref name="costnovmeberharvest"/> on the MXS website.<ref name="cosynotbs"/>

Some articles hailed CherryOS as a new potential competitor for programs such as MacWindows,<ref name="cosrtechnews"/> while the ''[[Irish Times]]'' would later write that certain groups of consumers "were suspicious as to how a little-known Hawaii-based outfit... could suddenly do something that had evaded much larger firms."<ref name="cossirishtimes"/> In explaining the suspicion, [[Ars Technica]] later noted that emulators by small developers like [[PearPC]] had reputations for working extremely slowly,<ref name="cosfarstechnia"/>  meaning CherryOS's claim of operating 80 percent of the host PC's speed would have been "a major breakthrough" in the industry.<ref name="coslstarbulletin"/>  When asked by the ''[[Star Bulletin]]'', at this point Kryeziu denied any possibility that CherryOS would contain code from a rival program like Apple,<ref name="coslstarbulletin"/>  MacWindows, Emulators.com, or PearPC,<ref name="cososweetensmac"/>  stating that "our lawyers have looked at this and say we're in the clear. We wrote this from scratch and we're clean as a whistle."<ref name="coslstarbulletin"/>

According to the ''[[Star Bulletin]]'', suspicions that CherryOS might be a hoax "were fanned" by glitches on the CherryOS home website,<ref name="coslstarbulletin"/> and three days after the site opened for pre-sales it crashed after taking 300,000 daily hits.<ref name="coslstarbulletin"/>  MXS president Jim Kartes crediting the crash on both unexpected high traffic and Mac "purists" who had hacked and destroyed the servers,<ref name="coslstarbulletin"/>  and though MXS continued to accept non-digital pre-orders,<ref name="coslstarbulletin"/>  by October 19 the CherryOS website was offline entirely as MXS switched to a new web host.<ref name="cosqdenystealing"/>