In article <ufpwc7p7mx.fsf@ftp.ardi.com>, Clifford T. Matthews
<ctm@ardi.com> wrote:
> MacOS on PC hardware could run very fast via dynamic recompilation*
> and could run blazingly fast if compiler tools were available** to
> allow CPU intensive routines to be compiled into 80x86 code by the
> software author.
>
> We wrote Executor, a Macintosh emulator that allows PCs to run much
> 68k Macintosh software, and it does so faster on entry level Pentiums
> than any 68k based Macintosh Apple ever released.
>
> We did this all without any help from Apple and we do not use any of
> Apple's ROMs or System file, nor have we disassembled any of Apple's
> ROM or System file. By doing it this way we have not been able to
> support all of System 7, much less support post System 7 features like
> QuickTime. In addition, there are still enough compatbility problems
> that many programs do not work. *However*, if we could license System
> 7.5, we could fairly easily get a very large degree of compatibility,
> since we'd be using Apple's code with all its quirks, rather than our
> rewrite from incomplete and inaccurate documentation.
>
> See http://www.ardi.com for more information about Executor.
> There is also an Executor newsgroup: comp.emulators.mac.executor.
>
> We continue on a day to day basis assuming that Apple is not
> interested in embracing our technology, and that is their decision,
> but MacOS 7.5 could run very quickly indeed on PCs.
While I'd hate to see Apple merge with Sun, maybe Sun would be interested
in working with you on this.
>
> What we have done is *much* more difficult than what QUIX has done,
> and infinitely more useful if Apple ever wants to reward their
> software developers and potentially take on Microsoft on Intel based
> PC hardware.
Agreed.
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Regards, Joe Ragosta
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