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- From: ab756@torfree.net (Graham Bullers)
- Subject: Re: PPC vs Pentium Pro Read it and spell
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- Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 22:56:59 GMT
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- *******THIS IS NOT APPROPRIATE FOR ALT.2600 TRIM YOUR HEADERS**********
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- Clifford T. Matthews (ctm@ardi.com) wrote:
- : >>>>> "Bryan" == Bryan Wu <bwu@panix.com> writes:
- : In article <4q0aej$ag0@panix.com> bwu@panix.com (Bryan Wu) writes:
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- : Bryan> In <4pts6m$cp6@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
- : Bryan> Soleil@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu (Brandon Hines) writes:
- : >> allroy@concentric.net (Nick Ganig) wrote:
- : >>> no. you see, it is ILLEGAL to emulate the macintosh os,
- : >>> whereas, any white trash developer with a couple hundred bucks
- : >>> can make an AT-compatible os.
- : >> Check out www.ardi.com. Not perfect, but certianly not
- : >> ILLEGAL.
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- : Bryan> It's borderline illegal. If I'm not mistaken, to run
- : Bryan> Executor, you need the Mac Roms, right?
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- : No. You do not need the ROMs, or anything from Apple, nor did any
- : ARDI engineers or contributors disassemble or otherwise examine
- : Apple's OS or toolbox code. That's why Executor has so many
- : limitations (and it currently has many). On the other hand, our OS
- : and toolbox rewrite is 100% native, which is why Executor is so fast.
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- : Bryan> And to get those
- : Bryan> ROMs you're supposed to have a mac. So why are you running
- : Bryan> the one licensed Mac ROM (which is, of course, a
- : Bryan> copyrighted program) on your PC when you could be running
- : Bryan> it on your mac? Unless you're taking that ROM data from a
- : Bryan> mac plus and want the speed boost and are never using the
- : Bryan> Mac Plus concurrently with Executor, the only way you're
- : Bryan> using that Mac Rom is illegally.
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- : Bryan> Of course, maybe you don't need a copy of the mac
- : Bryan> rom's.. but I doubt that.
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- : You were mistaken. Hopefully once Executor 2 is launched (RSN) there
- : will be a few articles about it in some of the popular trade
- : magazines. It's a tricky enough subject that some in depth
- : explanations would help everyone out on both sides.
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- : Bryan> Bryan
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- : http://www.ardi.com/ has more information on Executor.
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- : --Cliff
- : ctm@ardi.com
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- to change the things I can.And the wisdom to hide the bodies of the people
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