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Received: from desiree.teleport.com (desiree.teleport.com [192.108.254.21]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA06745 for <executor@nacm.com>; Thu, 23 Nov 1995 16:18:56 -0800 Received: from civis.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by desiree.teleport.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with UUCP id QAA28979 for executor@nacm.com; Thu, 23 Nov 1995 16:18:55 -0800 Message-Id: <199511240018.QAA28979@desiree.teleport.com> Received: from michael@civis by civis.com (PMail+UDG PegWaf v0.31 93.10.18) id 5181 for executor@nacm.com; Thu, 23 Nov 1995 16:03:23 PST 8 PDT From: Michael Codanti <Michael@civis.com> Organization: CIVIS Consulting To: Bill Miller <wjm@wwa.com> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 16:03:21 +0000 Subject: Re: CHRP and PREP systens CC: "'Executor List'" <executor@nacm.com> X-Confirm-Reading-To: Michael Codanti <Michael@CIVIS.com> X-pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.01) Organization: CIVIS Consulting Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk > 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. First Copland will never run on a PREP machine according to Apple. And if you look at the CHRP specs, you will notice to run Copland the machine has to have ROM space for Mac ROM's. (Either in a slot or a SIMM socket) That mean ARDI would have to either totally emulate the Mac ROM's (What they are trying to do now.) or figure out how to design a card that would take a standard pc ISA slot and adapt it to make the system look like a CHRP machine and accept Apple's ROM. Michael