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Re: PowerMac compatible



In article <4jeaau$90n@newsbf02.news.aol.com>,
ClockCHWC <clockchwc@aol.com> wrote:
>>>Emulating a PowerMac would take some serious effort.  It seems like it 
>>>would be almost impossible with the current Intel Technology.

I don't see how you can make this statement.  First of all Mat H,
who wrote the emulator for executor will tell you that there is
no technical reason why his emulator cannot be used for the 
PowerPC instruction set.  I think that he will show you that this
is possible (when he finds time).

>This is quite a depressing thought.  I don't see how Executor can keep up
>with the pace at which new applications are being made (mostly for
>PowerMac now). 

hmm.  When the installed base of PowerMacs becomes 2-3 times the size of
the installed base of 68k macs, then you will *start* to have difficulty.
Does anyone know what this ratio is now?  My guess is that there are still
more 68k macs in use than PowerMacs (although it is probably closing
in)

> I really want to see Executor become huge, but it can't
>really if it can't keep up. 

In order to keep up, it is more of an issue to support system7...
but by the time ardi gets to it, apple may be pushing copeland.
There is little hope of ardi being closer than a few years behind 
apple (unless they can manage to license the os)

> People won't want to run older software,
>they'll want to run the most current apps.  

This is perhaps the worst of all of you statements, because many people 
don't like or need the most current apps.  A perfect example is 
Microsoft Word.  There are more people that I know using Word 5.1, then
the slow memory hungry 6.0.  

Mike

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 Michael Gile                        |               Graduate Assistant
 gilem@rpi.edu                       |   Computer & Systems Engineering
                                     | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute


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