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- From: Clifford T. Matthews <ctm@ardi.com>
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- Subject: Re: Win 95/NT Executor
- Date: 20 Feb 1996 20:26:42 -0700
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- >>>>> "Larry" == Larry Velez <lev1673@is2.nyu.edu> writes:
- In article <4gadjr$2ds_001@edu.nyu.edu> lev1673@is2.nyu.edu (Larry Velez) writes:
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- Larry> As I am not a programmer I am just speculating here. If a
- Larry> Win95/NT version of executor would have to redirect any
- Larry> hardware calls from the Mac software to the Win95/NT
- Larry> drivers and not the actual hardware. Wouldn't this make it
- Larry> an easier to accomplishment than having to access the
- Larry> hardware directly?
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- In general, yes.
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- Larry> So does this mean that we can expect a
- Larry> port in much less time than the Dos version took to create?
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- Certainly. In addition to the point you bring up, there were other
- things that contributed to the DOS version's gestation period: writing
- the synthetic CPU and retooling ROMlib to handle little-endian
- storage, for instance. Those won't have to be redone.
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- Larry> Just curious...
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- Thank you for allowing us to pique your interest.
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- Larry> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Larry Velez lev1673@is2.nyu.edu
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- --Cliff
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