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- Subject: 680X0 -> PPC translator?
- Date: 15 Feb 1996 18:50:38
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- fkrj%crux4.cit.cornell.edu@INTERNET wrote :
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- >
- > I'm just wondering, is there any good reason AT can't write a program which
- > will tranlsate binary executables from 680X0 -> PPC, doing optimizations along
- > the way? That way we could translate most of our old software and it would
- > run efficiently. Why didn't Apple do this with the PowerMacs?
-
- At least a Cross-Compiler is on its way... a Version of Gnu C with Compilation
- to Power PC code on 680x0 systems (and with Power PC Simulation), but this is
- no Project by AT, it is a shareware project (Fred Fish is involved in the
- thing, AFAIK...)
-
- Steffen Haeuser
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