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- To: Dennis Edgecombe <dennis_edgecombe@wsu.edu>
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- Subject: Re: Competition for ARDI???
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- Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1995 13:44:46 EDT
- From: "Jered Floyd - jered@mit.edu" <jered@MIT.EDU>
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- 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
-
-