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- On Thu, 23 Nov 1995, Michael Codanti wrote:
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- > > Why doesn't Ardi work on making Executor CHRP and or PREP
- > >compliant. What I mean is, Apple is making the new OS platform
- > >independant. If Ardi were to make Executor make a standard x86
- > >system look like a CHRP or PREP compliant system, you could run
- > >either natively, or in emulation, Copland (system 8). This would
- > >give you all the system 7 functionality, and then allow you to run
- > >all Mac apps. This would require a heavy duty processor, but Apple
- > >should like the idea because it gets the Mac OS in front of a whole
- > >new crowd without forcing them to by new computers. After a while,
- > >people can then upgrade to a full fledged Mac, or continue to use
- > >E/x.
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- > First Copland will never run on a PREP machine according to Apple.
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- > And if you look at the CHRP specs, you will notice to run Copland the
- > machine has to have ROM space for Mac ROM's. (Either in a slot or a
- > SIMM socket) That mean ARDI would have to either totally emulate the
- > Mac ROM's (What they are trying to do now.) or figure out how to
- > design a card that would take a standard pc ISA slot and adapt it to
- > make the system look like a CHRP machine and accept Apple's ROM.
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- > Michael
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- Well that card sounds alot like the Gemulator card that was designed to
- hold 256K Atari ST TOS Roms for the Gemulator Atari ST emulator.
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- It's a commercial emulator, where they focused on making it compatible
- by leaving it up to the customer to buy the roms and installing them (or
- buy them at the time of purchase) but that would make it difficult to run
- on non PC's such as Next, and it would go against ARDI's idea of system
- independance.
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- Eric
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