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Re: Anyone else tried NTK with EXECUTOR for DOS?



In article <38fahq$m94@crcnis1.unl.edu>, cradek@herbie.unl.edu (Chris
Radek) wrote:

>> I experienced *exactly* the same thing trying to use the demo NTK under 
> EXECTUOR; right down to the problems extracting the two files, and the 
> lockup when trying to run the program.  I was quite impressed with 
> EXECUTOR overall, however.  One other thing; I'm not familiar with the 
> Macintosh family of products at all, other than having a couple of original 
> Macs in the basement that I bought at a computer swap-meet, at least one of 
> which seems to be functional.  As there is currently no Windows version of 
> the NTK demo (boo,hiss Apple), I was thinking of trying to run the NTK demo 
> on one of those.  Does your statement about the 68000 apply to them as well 
> (i.e. they won't run NTK either)?  I'm a bit perplexed that something as 
> relatively simple as the NTK demo, which generates code for something as 
> relatively small as the Newton, requires more than minimal hardware to run 
> on.

Technically, I believe that NTK requires a 68030, but it can be run using
a 68020 and Connectix's Mode32 (I think you might need a PMMU (hardware),
also, but I'm not sure about this). The big problem, and why it won't run
on an original Mac, is that it requires 32 bit memory access, which an old
Mac can't do.

I suspect that's the problem with EXECUTOR, as well.

Don

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