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Received: from MIT.EDU (SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU [18.72.1.2]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA23166 for <executor@nacm.com>; Mon, 7 Aug 1995 10:44:55 -0700 Received: from narn.atype.com by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA13226; Mon, 7 Aug 95 13:44:47 EDT Received: by narn.atype.com (8.6.12/4.7) id NAA02169; Mon, 7 Aug 1995 13:44:47 -0400 Message-Id: <199508071744.NAA02169@narn.atype.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.1 5/23/95 To: Dennis Edgecombe <dennis_edgecombe@wsu.edu> Cc: executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: Competition for ARDI??? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 07 Aug 1995 08:36:09 PDT." <199508071536.IAA09482@cheetah.it.wsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1995 13:44:46 EDT From: "Jered Floyd - jered@mit.edu" <jered@MIT.EDU> Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk First, a service message. vorlon.mit.edu may be unavailable for short periods of time for the installation of a new 4 GB hard drive. Next: The product from Quix is very much like previous emulators like MAE, in that it is both platform and Apple dependent. By using the PowerPC, Quix has been able to sidestep the entire processor emulation problem. For 68k and OS emulation, the product depends on a commercial version of System 7.1. While this still leaves quite a bit of work to do, I think that it pales in comparison to the work necessary to make Executor. Also, the Quix product only runs on IBM PowerPC PReP systems, which are currently very rare. It is also interesting to note that Quix has a similar product called 'Daydream' that provides Mac emulation on black NeXTs. It consists of a small (2" x 3") box which contains Apple ROMs, software, and Apple System 7.1. While these systems probably outperform Executor and are much more stable, they are both on rare platforms that don't have the challenge that the x86 presents, and are very Apple dependent. For those reasons, I doubt that Quix will be a competitor in the x86 market. --Jered jered@mit.edu