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- >>>>> "Jeff" == Jeffrey A Halverson <halv0019@gold.tc.umn.edu> writes:
-
- Since this wasn't a 1.99n bug report, it was considered low priority.
- We've responded to most of the 1.99n bug reports by now, so I'm
- cleaning out some of my other e-mail.
-
- Jeff> I have a question about the future the way that ardi sees:
- Jeff> Will I be able to install the MacOS on a partition on my
- Jeff> hard drive using your synthetic CPU in the future? Is this
- Jeff> something that is plausible? The idea being that I could
- Jeff> have an entire MacOS partition, a VFAT partition, a Linux
- Jeff> ext2fs and an OS/2 hpfs and have a boot manager select which
- Jeff> operating system to start up...
-
- Putting Executor in a partition by itself wouldn't be hard to do. In
- fact, if you're facile with Linux, you may be able to do it already.
- However, *running* executor from a Mac partition is not doable until
- you can run Executor as a stand alone program sans DOS, sans Linux,
- sans NEXTSTEP. This may *never* happen. We like the Executor/Linux
- pair so much that it might make sense to have a stripped down Linux
- installation that includes Executor for people who want to run
- Executor only and don't care about Linux, but that would then probably
- require another partition.
-
- Jeff> Then of course, If I need
- Jeff> to access the Mac Programs while under either DOS, OS/2 or
- Jeff> LINUX, I could fire up the emulator, and access the
- Jeff> partition. The advantage being that If an app doesn't work
- Jeff> under the emulator, I could resort to rebooting the native
- Jeff> MacOS, but mostly I could stay comfortable in my LINUX
- Jeff> environment. (I guess I'm speculating on what sort of deal
- Jeff> it is that you may be able to spark with Apple, in version
- Jeff> >2.0 with buying the actual MacOS7.5)
-
- Well, nothing much is happening between ARDI and Apple right now.
-
- Jeff> Additionally, I would like to say "thanks ardi!" for your
- Jeff> generosity of contributing the mac-fs to someone who will
- Jeff> implement it on Linux! I'm really impressed with your
- Jeff> "saintly" philosophy! :-) I can of course, see how this will
- Jeff> help out both you and the linux community. (Anyone who
- Jeff> doesn't know what I'm talking about, read their new FAQ!
- Jeff> Great job on the FAQ!)
-
- Thanks. Some people will claim we're not giving away enough, some
- people will wonder why we give anything away.
-
- Jeff> And in case I haven't gone way off on speculations yet, how
- Jeff> about this: Has there been any talk with the Caldera people?
- Jeff> They are trying real hard to make Linux commercially viable,
- Jeff> mainly via Windows support (as in MS-Win), perhaps they can
- Jeff> find a shortcut in support of Executor... ??
-
- We've made ourselves known to the Caldera people, but we haven't given
- them a sales pitch (yet).
-
- --Cliff
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