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- Subject: Re: System 7.x (5)
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- At 10:41 PM 11/13/95 +0800, you wrote:
- >>I was wondering, what would happen if I were to install system 7.x on top
- >of Executor. If you don't know, I may be able to try it at school. We
- >have a site license for System 7, and a bunch of macs that have the DOS
- >compatibility
- >
- >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?
-
- The reason is quite simple. Executor will crash with Apple's system files
- installed instead of ARDI's. Likewise, if you tried to replace the system
- files of a Mac with Executor's system files, the Mac would crash. This is
- because Cliff & Co
- had none of the fine nitty gritty details of the innerworkings of the
- Macintosh. Rather, all they had was the info provided by the book series
- "inside the Macintosh" put out by Apple for programmers. What Cliff & Co
- had to do is follow the books to the 't' and run test algorithms to try and
- extrapolate as much info as possible. If I'm not mistaken, this is the
- 'clean room' process of reverse engineering that Cliff sometimes mentions.
- This is all explained in great detail in the text file EARNSTOUD.TXT which
- resides in the docs directory undr the executor directory. -Matt Galgoci
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