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Received: from sunspot.tiac.net (sunspot.tiac.net [199.0.65.22]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id SAA07901 for <executor@nacm.com>; Thu, 23 Nov 1995 18:18:44 -0800 Received: (from eretic@localhost) by sunspot.tiac.net (8.6.12/8.6.6.Beta9) id VAA21636; Thu, 23 Nov 1995 21:18:41 -0500 Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 21:18:40 -0500 (EST) From: Eric Palm <eretic@sunspot.tiac.net> To: Michael Codanti <Michael@civis.com> cc: Bill Miller <wjm@wwa.com>, "'Executor List'" <executor@nacm.com> Subject: Re: CHRP and PREP systens In-Reply-To: <199511240018.QAA28979@desiree.teleport.com> Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951123211643.21530A-100000@sunspot.tiac.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk On Thu, 23 Nov 1995, Michael Codanti wrote: > > 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 > Well that card sounds alot like the Gemulator card that was designed to hold 256K Atari ST TOS Roms for the Gemulator Atari ST emulator. It's a commercial emulator, where they focused on making it compatible by leaving it up to the customer to buy the roms and installing them (or buy them at the time of purchase) but that would make it difficult to run on non PC's such as Next, and it would go against ARDI's idea of system independance. Eric