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Received: from sloth.swcp.com (sloth.swcp.com [198.59.115.25]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id XAA16087 for <executor@nacm.com>; Fri, 21 Apr 1995 23:05:53 -0700 Received: from iclone.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by sloth.swcp.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with UUCP id AAA03730; Sat, 22 Apr 1995 00:08:53 -0600 Received: from gwar.ardi.com by mailhost with smtp (nextstep Smail3.1.29.0 #11) id m0s2YJd-000Ye1C; Sat, 22 Apr 95 00:05 MDT Received: by gwar.ardi.com (linux Smail3.1.28.1 #5) id m0s2YJc-000GOeC; Sat, 22 Apr 95 00:05 MDT Message-Id: <m0s2YJc-000GOeC@gwar.ardi.com> Date: Sat, 22 Apr 95 00:05 MDT From: mat@ardi.com (Mat Hostetter) To: Chad Page <cpage@best.com> Cc: executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: Executor Developers Kit? In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSD.3.91.950421170728.17464A-100000@shell1.best.com> References: <Pine.BSD.3.91.950421170728.17464A-100000@shell1.best.com> Sender: owner-executor@nacm.com Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Chad" == Chad Page <cpage@best.com> writes: Chad> Why not create an Executor Developers Kit, which would Chad> come with DJGPP, a staticly linked library with the primary Chad> ROMlib code, and documentation (possibly with some bundled Chad> in API docs - maybe licensed from Apple? I know Inside Chad> Macintosh can now be FTP'ed, but you need Apple's DocViewer Chad> to read them, and unless things have changed lately, that Chad> will not run under Executor.) Actually, Executor began as a source-compatible library called ROMlib. The idea is that ROMlib let you compile your app on platforms other than a Mac. Eventually we abandoned that and moved to binary compatibility. With a fast enough emulator, that's feasible, and we don't need the cooperation of the developers to get their programs running. There are many tricky issues involved with writing a developer's kit. Endianness issues are the worst; 80x86 developers would have to be very careful to always byte swap at the right times. A fancy developer's kit may be an avenue we explore in the future, but for now we've got to stay focused. Thanks for the suggestion, though! -Mat