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- >>>>> "Marciano" == Marciano Siniscalchi <marciano@ecu.stanford.edu> writes:
- In article <4ge92q$d3e@nntp.Stanford.EDU> marciano@ecu.stanford.edu (Marciano Siniscalchi) writes:
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- Larry> So does this mean that we can expect a port in much less
- Larry> time than the Dos version took to create?
- >> Certainly. In addition to the point you bring up, there were
- >> other things that contributed to the DOS version's gestation
- >> period: writing the synthetic CPU and retooling ROMlib to
- >> handle little-endian storage, for instance. Those won't have
- >> to be redone.
- >>
-
- Marciano> OK, I couldn't resist. How about this: emulate Mac
- Marciano> programs *only*, i.e. forget about the Finder, etc.,
- Marciano> and rely on the Win95 shell instead. Ideally, one would
- Marciano> double-click on a Mac application existing as a file, or
- Marciano> set of files, in the DOS file system (with long file
- Marciano> names), and Executor would be invoked, providing (1)
- Marciano> 680x0 emulation, and (2) rerouting / execution of
- Marciano> Toolbox calls. Sort of like OS/2's "seamless Windows"
- Marciano> integration.
-
- Executor does some of that right now. You can use file suffixes to
- tell Windows '95 to run Executor when you double-click on a ".appl"
- file and then Windows will pass the name of the file you
- double-clicked on to Executor, which will fire up and then start that
- application.
-
- It will only work if Executor isn't already running, but after
- Executor 2 is out we will see how much more we can add like you
- describe above.
-
- Marciano> Kinda cool... OK, maybe I *am* dreaming...
-
- I think our implementation will be a little more complicated than you
- describe above, but much of what you describe should work, hopefully
- in about six months.
-
- Marciano> Good job Cliff & Co.! Marciano
-
- Marciano> PS: I will be delighted to be your customers -- just get
- Marciano> full System 7 emulation to work :-)
-
- Much of 7.0 is going, although almost nothing that has been added
- since then is (QuickTime, QuickDraw GX, etc.). We wound up supporting
- much more of 7.0 in Executor 2 than we originally planned, but we
- found that if we didn't, too many programs wouldn't run.
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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