[Prev][Next][Index][Thread]

Re: Another Mac Rom Question



ARDI is cool, but it is in serious trouble.  Apple currently has an
emulator for Unix users, called MAE (Macintosh Application Envirinment). 
It includes Macintosh ROM cade, and is 99.9999999+% compatible with Mac
programs.  It also has networking services in addition to other things
that Executor can not.  ARDI is in trouble, because a "PC" version is due
for next year.  Two thing will happen:

1) Apple's MAE will be more compatible, faster, better features, and more stable

and/or

2) Apple will buy ARDI, swallow their source code, and some features, and
seel it a MAE for "PC's".

ARDI's executor is neat because it's a first, but it's only a mediocre
first-generation product.  Apple's emulator will make it impossible for
ARDI to compete.  


In article <4itbdv$o3k@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu>, wmagro@msc.cornell.edu
(William Magro) wrote:

> Fabian Jimenez (fabian@cais.com) wrote:
> : Why not just let the 
> : end user supply their own rom images (legally) like those Mac emulators 
> : that exist for the Amiga and Atari?
> 
> An important source of executor's speed is its native implementation
> of OS functions.  To use the roms would mean emulating 68040 code
> all of the time.  This would be slow.  Of course there are other
> good reasons for not using the ROMs, as well.
> 
> --Bill


Follow-Ups: References: