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- From: Bill Miller <wjm@wwa.com>
- To: "'Clifford T. Matthews'" <ctm@ardi.com>,
- Jeff Koftinoff
- <jeffk@awinc.com>
- Cc: "'Executor List'" <executor@nacm.com>
- Subject: CHRP and PREP systens
- Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 04:06:30 -0600
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- Why doesn't Ardi work on making Executor CHRP and or PREP compliant. =
- What I mean is, Apple is making the new OS platform independant. If =
- Ardi were to make Executor make a standard x86 system look like a CHRP =
- or PREP compliant system, you could run either natively, or in =
- emulation, Copland (system 8). This would give you all the system 7 =
- functionality, and then allow you to run all Mac apps. This would =
- require a heavy duty processor, but Apple should like the idea because =
- it gets the Mac OS in front of a whole new crowd without forcing them to =
- by new computers. After a while, people can then upgrade to a full =
- fledged Mac, or continue to use E/x.
-
- My $.02. ;>
-
- Bill Miller
- wjm@wwa.com
- w-miller@flamingo.district125.k12.il.us
-
- ----------
- From: Clifford T. Matthews[SMTP:ctm@ardi.com]
- Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 1995 7:19 PM
- To: Jeff Koftinoff
- Cc: 'Executor List'
- Subject: RE: Executor 2.0 CD-ROM
-
- >>>>> "Jeff" =3D=3D Jeff Koftinoff <jeffk@awinc.com> writes:
-
- >> >The CD-ROMs will be in a jewelbox and have a 32-page
- >> mini-manual that >explains how to install Executor and briefly
- >> describes how to operate >it. That will be supplemented by
- >> on-line documentation that covers >use in depth and also has
- >> technical information for programmers.
- >>=20
-
- Jeff> Cool! technical information! Does this mean, the I, as a mac
- Jeff> programmer can write software that would be able to 'know'
- Jeff> that it is running executor, and possibly do executor/386
- Jeff> specific things?
-
- Yes, that is our goal. Tentatively we'll use gestalt to build a
- virtual gestalt call that will tell you stuff about the environment of
- the emulator as opposed to the normal gestalt which returns
- information about the emulated environment. One of the pieces of
- information you'll be able to get will be how to jump into native
- code. This will allow people to make versions of Mac programs with
- x86 speedups for compute intensive parts.
-
- We know how we're going to do this, but we haven't gotten around to it
- yet.
-
- Jeff> I did this on the Mac Emulator for the Atari ST in 1988 - My
- Jeff> software was able to determine that it was running under the
- Jeff> Mac OS on an Atari and then the software would access the
- Jeff> Atari's MIDI port and timer hardware directly. Of course on
- Jeff> a real mac it would work as well via the Mac hardware.
-
- Jeff> There are lots of fun things that could be done. But please
- Jeff> don't delay 2.0 too much.
-
- Right, it's a tricky tradeoff. Theoretically we are adding no new
- functionality between now and E 2 beta, but this one's been on the
- board for a while, so will probably appear in 1.99p7 or 1.99q.
-
- Jeff> Best Regards
-
- Jeff> -------------------------------------------------------
- Jeff> ---------- Jeff Koftinoff --- jeffk@awinc.com --------- ---
- Jeff> Internet Monitoring and Filtering Software --- ---
- Jeff> Multimedia and Embedded Systems Programming --- ---
- Jeff> http://www.xmission.com/~seer/jdksoftware/ ---
- Jeff> -------------------------------------------------------
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- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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