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>>>>> "Bryan" == Bryan Wu <bwu@panix.com> writes:
In article <4q1sl6$lei@panix.com> bwu@panix.com (Bryan Wu) writes:


    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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