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Re: Copland
John de Bruin <j.bruin@auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>I was reading about the upcoming update for the MacOS known as Copland.
>Apple will apparently, to cope with the growing clone market and
>incompatibility issues, introduce a hardware abstaction layer (HAL),
>making the new operating system ROM independent and disk based.
>Won't this make development of Executor a lot easier, if Apple can
>deliver on HAL?
>Could all the effort going into replicating the functionality of the ROMs
>be going to waste, as all that would be needed is to buy Copland and
>install it over the emulated hardware.
I would assume that re-writing the toolbox to a native processor is
much faster than simply emulating the original toolbox code. But ARDI
might be able to supplement a totally based MacOS--i.e. slowly replace
certain function calls with native equivalents while simply emulating
the rest for compatabilities sake.
Brandon
Soleil@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu
References:
- Copland
- From: John de Bruin <j.bruin@auckland.ac.nz>