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Re: A few non-critical questions and comments...



>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeffrey A Halverson <halv0019@gold.tc.umn.edu> writes:

Since this wasn't a 1.99n bug report, it was considered low priority.
We've responded to most of the 1.99n bug reports by now, so I'm
cleaning out some of my other e-mail.

    Jeff> I have a question about the future the way that ardi sees:
    Jeff> Will I be able to install the MacOS on a partition on my
    Jeff> hard drive using your synthetic CPU in the future?  Is this
    Jeff> something that is plausible?  The idea being that I could
    Jeff> have an entire MacOS partition, a VFAT partition, a Linux
    Jeff> ext2fs and an OS/2 hpfs and have a boot manager select which
    Jeff> operating system to start up...

Putting Executor in a partition by itself wouldn't be hard to do.  In
fact, if you're facile with Linux, you may be able to do it already.
However, *running* executor from a Mac partition is not doable until
you can run Executor as a stand alone program sans DOS, sans Linux,
sans NEXTSTEP.  This may *never* happen.  We like the Executor/Linux
pair so much that it might make sense to have a stripped down Linux
installation that includes Executor for people who want to run
Executor only and don't care about Linux, but that would then probably
require another partition.

    Jeff> Then of course, If I need
    Jeff> to access the Mac Programs while under either DOS, OS/2 or
    Jeff> LINUX, I could fire up the emulator, and access the
    Jeff> partition.  The advantage being that If an app doesn't work
    Jeff> under the emulator, I could resort to rebooting the native
    Jeff> MacOS, but mostly I could stay comfortable in my LINUX
    Jeff> environment. (I guess I'm speculating on what sort of deal
    Jeff> it is that you may be able to spark with Apple, in version
    Jeff> >2.0 with buying the actual MacOS7.5)

Well, nothing much is happening between ARDI and Apple right now.

    Jeff> Additionally, I would like to say "thanks ardi!" for your
    Jeff> generosity of contributing the mac-fs to someone who will
    Jeff> implement it on Linux!  I'm really impressed with your
    Jeff> "saintly" philosophy! :-) I can of course, see how this will
    Jeff> help out both you and the linux community.  (Anyone who
    Jeff> doesn't know what I'm talking about, read their new FAQ!
    Jeff> Great job on the FAQ!)

Thanks.  Some people will claim we're not giving away enough, some
people will wonder why we give anything away.

    Jeff> And in case I haven't gone way off on speculations yet, how
    Jeff> about this: Has there been any talk with the Caldera people?
    Jeff> They are trying real hard to make Linux commercially viable,
    Jeff> mainly via Windows support (as in MS-Win), perhaps they can
    Jeff> find a shortcut in support of Executor... ??

We've made ourselves known to the Caldera people, but we haven't given
them a sales pitch (yet).

	--Cliff


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