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Re: Linux PPC



At 11:41 PM 4/21/96 -0400,Dwight Weisman wrote:
>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.

Gee, the last time I checked, MacOs for PPC included an emulator for the 
68xxx series, in fact I remember noticing in a review of an upgrade to 
it that Apple was using the same kind of tricks that SynPaper talks 
about.  Now if I recall correctly, they *were* considering putting in a 
hardware translation layer for _Intel x86_ code, in order to compete in 
the "mainstream" market.

I would be very interested in finding out if the PPC group has decided 
to work on hardware level emulation of any other platforms.

Ian
vmeister@ios.com
http://ios.com/~vmeister/



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