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- >>>>> "Bryan" == Bryan Wu <bwu@panix.com> writes:
- In article <4q1sl6$lei@panix.com> bwu@panix.com (Bryan Wu) writes:
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- Bryan> In <4q1mej$o29@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
- Bryan> Soleil@utxvms.cc.utexas.edu (Brandon Hines) writes:
- >> bwu@panix.com (Bryan Wu) wrote:
- >>> Of course, maybe you don't need a copy of the mac rom's.. but
- >>> I doubt that.
- >> No Mac roms involved.
- >>
- >> As I said, check out www.ardi.com.
-
- Bryan> Also, I notice taht you can't run CDEV or INITs on
- Bryan> Executor.. so that means like, no quicktime, and most
- Bryan> everything else that really makes modern macs what they
- Bryan> are.. but still, it's a cool hack. :)~
-
- The reason you can't run CDEVs or INITs is just that we needed to
- feature freeze so we could get our product out the door and use the
- revenue to hire more engineers so we can complete the remaining tasks
- even quicker. In general it won't be hard at all to add support fot
- CDEVs and INITs (they're just more ways of loading code into memory
- and jumping to it), although the potential for INIT conflicts will be
- even higher under Executor than on a real Mac because INITs often
- expect the OS to behave in very specific (and undocumented) ways.
-
-
- Bryan> What I think might be cool would be to have ARDI make
- Bryan> "SoftMac" for Windows users - analogous to "SoftWindows" on
- Bryan> the mac.. of course, I don't think that Apple has engineers
- Bryan> to devote to that kind of technology transfer right now,
- Bryan> but hey, if they've got a good 680x0 emulator, maybe ARDI
- Bryan> can license the Mac Roms and go from there!
-
- We'll be doing that with or without Apple's consent. The reason
- Executor has as many limitations as it does is that we have spent a
- very long time using strictly "clean room" reverse engineering
- techniques to build the infrastructure that we've built. That means
- we're not left high and dry like QUIX or the people who have done
- various "Mac emulators" for Amigas. The degree of difficulty of what
- we've done is much higher than all the other previous efforts in Mac
- cloning (Quorum and NuTek).
-
-
- Again, more info on Executor can be found at http://www.ardi.com/.
-
- Bryan> Bryan
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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