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RE: CHRP and PREP systens
On Fri, 24 Nov 1995, Mat Hostetter wrote:
>
> It should thoroughly crush every 68k emulator ever written,
> including SpeedDoubler and our own Syn68k. It's also retargetable so
> I can stick different "front ends" on as well. That should let us
> emulate PowerPC apps someday. This new emulator also has a clean
> "back end" interface, which makes it reasonably easy to port the
> emulator to other processors (Alpha, Sparc, MIPS, PA-RISC, etc.)
Great! For most companies my reply would have been "sure, I'll believe it
when I see it"... But for ARDI, your track record is awsome! I'm
looking forward to such a beast! Would it then be possible for 3rd
parties to write their own "front end" in the future? (Am I
understanding the "front end" reference right, meaning the GUI?)
>
> One possibility would be for us to have one emulator that can emulate
> both 68k and PPC code.
Wow.
> Unfortunately, even if I dropped all other ARDI stuff (which I can't
> do) and just worked on this emulator, it would take me months (working
> alone) to get it finished.
You are still years ahead of "copeland"! Maybe you could implement your
"best syn68k cpu emulation" ahead of copeland, compile it for the PPC and
start to sell it before apple has a chance to catch up. It really amazes
me that such a small group of people could innovate faster than a big
company like Apple! (perhaps you could make SMP version after 2.0 ships
sometime and beat apple by at least 5 years.)
>
> -Mat
Keep up the great products!!!
Jeff Halverson
halv0019@gold.tc.umn.edu
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