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- On Fri, 24 Nov 1995, Mat Hostetter wrote:
- >
- > It should thoroughly crush every 68k emulator ever written,
- > including SpeedDoubler and our own Syn68k. It's also retargetable so
- > I can stick different "front ends" on as well. That should let us
- > emulate PowerPC apps someday. This new emulator also has a clean
- > "back end" interface, which makes it reasonably easy to port the
- > emulator to other processors (Alpha, Sparc, MIPS, PA-RISC, etc.)
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- Great! For most companies my reply would have been "sure, I'll believe it
- when I see it"... But for ARDI, your track record is awsome! I'm
- looking forward to such a beast! Would it then be possible for 3rd
- parties to write their own "front end" in the future? (Am I
- understanding the "front end" reference right, meaning the GUI?)
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- >
- > One possibility would be for us to have one emulator that can emulate
- > both 68k and PPC code.
-
- Wow.
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- > Unfortunately, even if I dropped all other ARDI stuff (which I can't
- > do) and just worked on this emulator, it would take me months (working
- > alone) to get it finished.
-
- You are still years ahead of "copeland"! Maybe you could implement your
- "best syn68k cpu emulation" ahead of copeland, compile it for the PPC and
- start to sell it before apple has a chance to catch up. It really amazes
- me that such a small group of people could innovate faster than a big
- company like Apple! (perhaps you could make SMP version after 2.0 ships
- sometime and beat apple by at least 5 years.)
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- >
- > -Mat
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- Keep up the great products!!!
- Jeff Halverson
- halv0019@gold.tc.umn.edu
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