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- Subject: Re: Licensed MacOS or rewrite?
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- To: purdym@aol.com (PurdyM)
- Date: Fri, 5 Apr 96 09:59 MST
- From: mat@ardi.com (Mat Hostetter)
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- >>>>> "PurdyM" == PurdyM <purdym@aol.com> writes:
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- PurdyM> I don't understand if executor is a mac emulator with a
- PurdyM> copy of MacOS placed on top of it or a rewrite of the
- PurdyM> MacOS to work on a PC...
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- Executor is a 680x0 emulator plus a "clean room" rewrite of the MacOS.
- You don't need a copy of Apple's MacOS to run Executor, although
- eventually we'll make that an option so you can get really good
- compatibility.
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- We've done the MacOS rewrite in such a way that it can be ported to
- various machines. Executor currently runs on x86 PC's and m68k-based
- NeXTstations; in the past we've had it running Mac binaries on a DEC
- Alpha. In the days when ARDI just had a source-compatibility library
- it was ported to numerous other now obscure machines.
-
- -Mat
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