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- From: kenneth@norconnect.no (Kenneth C. Nilsen)
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- Subject: Re: 680X0 -> PPC translator?
- Date: 16 Feb 1996 13:06:32 GMT
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- The 14-Feb-96 16:08:18, Benjamin Kenobi wrote in msg n/a :
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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?
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- I believe there is a new version of the emulator called "SpeedDoubler" or
- something like that. According to my information it is really just an
- optimized version of the old MC680x0->PPC emulator on the PowerMac. I would
- also believe that AT will use a licensed version of this emulator, but here I
- speculate.
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