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Clifford T. Matthews (ctm@ardi.com) wrote:
: >>>>> "Bryan" == Bryan Wu <bwu@panix.com> writes:
: In article <4q1sl6$lei@panix.com> bwu@panix.com (Bryan Wu) writes:


:     Bryan> In <4q1mej$o29@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
:     Bryan> Soleil@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu (Brandon Hines) writes:
:     >> bwu@panix.com (Bryan Wu) wrote:
:     >>> Of course, maybe you don't need a copy of the mac rom's.. but
:     >>> I doubt that.
:     >>  No Mac roms involved.
:     >> 
:     >> As I said, check out www.ardi.com.

:     Bryan> Also, I notice taht you can't run CDEV or INITs on
:     Bryan> Executor.. so that means like, no quicktime, and most
:     Bryan> everything else that really makes modern macs what they
:     Bryan> are.. but still, it's a cool hack. :)~

: The reason you can't run CDEVs or INITs is just that we needed to
: feature freeze so we could get our product out the door and use the
: revenue to hire more engineers so we can complete the remaining tasks
: even quicker.  In general it won't be hard at all to add support fot
: CDEVs and INITs (they're just more ways of loading code into memory
: and jumping to it), although the potential for INIT conflicts will be
: even higher under Executor than on a real Mac because INITs often
: expect the OS to behave in very specific (and undocumented) ways.


:     Bryan> What I think might be cool would be to have ARDI make
:     Bryan> "SoftMac" for Windows users - analogous to "SoftWindows" on
:     Bryan> the mac.. of course, I don't think that Apple has engineers
:     Bryan> to devote to that kind of technology transfer right now,
:     Bryan> but hey, if they've got a good 680x0 emulator, maybe ARDI
:     Bryan> can license the Mac Roms and go from there!

: We'll be doing that with or without Apple's consent.  The reason
: Executor has as many limitations as it does is that we have spent a
: very long time using strictly "clean room" reverse engineering
: techniques to build the infrastructure that we've built.  That means
: we're not left high and dry like QUIX or the people who have done
: various "Mac emulators" for Amigas.  The degree of difficulty of what
: we've done is much higher than all the other previous efforts in Mac
: cloning (Quorum and NuTek).


: Again, more info on Executor can be found at http://www.ardi.com/.

:     Bryan> Bryan

: --Cliff
: ctm@ardi.com
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