home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- John de Bruin <j.bruin@auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
-
- >I was reading about the upcoming update for the MacOS known as Copland.
- >Apple will apparently, to cope with the growing clone market and
- >incompatibility issues, introduce a hardware abstaction layer (HAL),
- >making the new operating system ROM independent and disk based.
-
- >Won't this make development of Executor a lot easier, if Apple can
- >deliver on HAL?
-
- >Could all the effort going into replicating the functionality of the ROMs
- >be going to waste, as all that would be needed is to buy Copland and
- >install it over the emulated hardware.
-
- I would assume that re-writing the toolbox to a native processor is
- much faster than simply emulating the original toolbox code. But ARDI
- might be able to supplement a totally based MacOS--i.e. slowly replace
- certain function calls with native equivalents while simply emulating
- the rest for compatabilities sake.
-
- Brandon
- Soleil@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu
-
-
-
-