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Re: Linux PPC



On 4/21/96  at 5:15 PM you wrote:
> ahanton@us.net (Andy Hanton) wrote:
>
> Emulation would still be necessary.  It would need to emulate a 68040
> on a PowerPC.  This is what the MacOS does on the PowerPC Macs and
> that's why you're able to run 680x0 programs still.

NOT.

PPCs employ hardwired 040 to PPC translation.  This is not a function of
MacOS.  Since all PPCs will run Mac OS native, for the price of the shelf,
Ardi will be hard put to find many takers there.

Cheerios,
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