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  6. From: wmagro@msc.cornell.edu (William Magro)
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  8. Subject: Re: Another Mac Rom Question
  9. Date: 22 Mar 1996 04:47:59 GMT
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  21. Fabian Jimenez (fabian@cais.com) wrote:
  22. : Why not just let the 
  23. : end user supply their own rom images (legally) like those Mac emulators 
  24. : that exist for the Amiga and Atari?
  25.  
  26. An important source of executor's speed is its native implementation
  27. of OS functions.  To use the roms would mean emulating 68040 code
  28. all of the time.  This would be slow.  Of course there are other
  29. good reasons for not using the ROMs, as well.
  30.  
  31. --Bill
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