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Re: System 7.x (5)



On Mon, 13 Nov 1995, Devastator wrote:
> Now this sounds like a great idea. Installing Mac software on executor. I
> believe, going from myself, that I would rather pay $300 for ardi's ppc code
> which would enable me to run almost anything, than to pay $99 for which just
> might run software that I happen to use.
> 
> Cliff: Why doesn't ardi just sell the engine, instead of the whole product? 

	I'm sure Cliff will take this himself, but basically:  read the 
documentation.  Everyone at ARDI would, I think, love to just write a 
bridge between non-Apple hardware and the MacOS.  It isn't anywhere close 
to that simple.  They're not breaking their own code to keep you from 
having to buy Apple products; but the difference between a Mac and a 
DOS/Linux box, say, is a whole lot bigger than a processor swap.  For one 
thing, ROMs.  ARDI has had to figure out what's in the Mac ROMs without 
reverse-engineering them.  Try to figure out how to copy a 4-cylinder 
engine by throwing wadded-up kleenex at the thing and seeing which way 
they get deflected, and you'll have an idea of how hard their job is.  
Even once the ROMs and the processor emulation are perfected, there's a 
lot of kludging to trick the system into thinking everything--sound, 
video, hard disks, etc.--are where they ought to be.

Waiting for Quark to run without memory errors,
	and absolutely stunned that it loads at all,
Scott Shuchart
shuchart@fas.harvard.edu


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