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- ARDI is cool, but it is in serious trouble. Apple currently has an
- emulator for Unix users, called MAE (Macintosh Application Envirinment).
- It includes Macintosh ROM cade, and is 99.9999999+% compatible with Mac
- programs. It also has networking services in addition to other things
- that Executor can not. ARDI is in trouble, because a "PC" version is due
- for next year. Two thing will happen:
-
- 1) Apple's MAE will be more compatible, faster, better features, and more stable
-
- and/or
-
- 2) Apple will buy ARDI, swallow their source code, and some features, and
- seel it a MAE for "PC's".
-
- ARDI's executor is neat because it's a first, but it's only a mediocre
- first-generation product. Apple's emulator will make it impossible for
- ARDI to compete.
-
-
- In article <4itbdv$o3k@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu>, wmagro@msc.cornell.edu
- (William Magro) wrote:
-
- > Fabian Jimenez (fabian@cais.com) wrote:
- > : Why not just let the
- > : end user supply their own rom images (legally) like those Mac emulators
- > : that exist for the Amiga and Atari?
- >
- > An important source of executor's speed is its native implementation
- > of OS functions. To use the roms would mean emulating 68040 code
- > all of the time. This would be slow. Of course there are other
- > good reasons for not using the ROMs, as well.
- >
- > --Bill
-
-