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Re: PowerMac compatible



>>>>> "GONZO" == GONZO  <kucenskm@imap2.asu.edu> writes:
In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.960327182921.632B-100000@general1.asu.edu> GONZO <kucenskm@imap2.asu.edu> writes:


    GONZO> On 27 Mar 1996, PurdyM wrote:
    >> Forget system 7....how about 7.5 and <future> Copeland?

Our goal is to split so that one team continues to implement more of
System 7 natively and another team adjusts Executor so that System 7.5
can be dropped on top of it.  There are some tricky legal issues
involved and it costs a lot of money so we can't do the split until
Executor 2 is shipping.

Copland is too hard to predict but by the time it's out we should have
a much heftier revenue stream to draw from.

    >> Think about it, we really need executor to be powermac
    >> compatible.  It is rather a bummer to think about buying an
    >> emulator that seems a little behind in regards to the software
    >> it can run.  That would be like Insignia (makers of a PC
    >> emulator for Mac) releasing a 12MHz 286 emulator.

Actually, for its first several years Insignia's products *couldn't*
support enhanced mode on the 386.  Their product that does support
that is less than a year on the market and although Insignia's
software is much more compatible with the apps that run under it, it's
also *significantly* slower than Executor.

    >> Ardi would scoop a huge market if they made Executor compatible
    >> with PowerMac applications.  Let's Hope.
    >> 
    >> 
    GONZO> Emulating a PowerMac would take some serious effort.  It
    GONZO> seems like it would be almost impossible with the current
    GONZO> Intel Technology.

Mat Hostetter has already done much of the work that is necessary to
do PPC emulation.  We are indeed planning on supporting that in the
future.  There will be a performance hit, of course, but part of the
genius of Mat's new synthetic CPU is that we'll be able to target
other architectures as well, so a real cranking Alpha may be able to
emulate a PPC at a pretty impressive rate.  We won't have actual
numbers for a few more months, though.

--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com


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