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Re: Let's get System 7.x on top!



Clifford T. Matthews wrote:
> 
> Craig has hit the nail on the head.  We spend ridiculously large
> amounts of time now messing around with DOS intracacies that we can
> avoid when we have a more advanced OS backing us up.  In all liklihood
> we won't add support for things like networking to the DOS specific
> version and that will save us time because we'll be able to add
> support for networking to the other versions *much* quicker.

It'd be a major pain anyway, having to comply with multiple standards
for networkind on one platform. Good idea, guys.

> 
> Currently it's only translation of various docs.  We do hope to
> support WorldScript but that will only be done if either we have a
> sufficiently large revenue stream that we can take on that project
> without having to scale back our "system 7.x on Executor" project or
> if we can get funding for that project from a source other than our
> revenue stream.  I think the latter is likely once E2 is more widely
> known.

It will be nice to use real MacOS on the Executor platform. Now that
Apple has dedicated themselves to high-end systems only, though, it
might (might being the operative word) be possible to get some help
direct from Apple. Stranger things _have_ happened...

> I know people have gotten SoftPC, SoftWindow's precursor to run.  I
> don't know about SoftWindows.  I'm sure it would be too slow to be of
> much use to the Linux community -- they already have dosemu and WINE.

As a Linux user, I agree with this assessment. The emulation of Mac
programs may be reasonably fast, but why mess with the extra overhead of
translating ix86 instructions to 680x0 and back to ix86? Wine may not be
perfect, but hopefully someday it'll be close! Keep up the good work on
Executor. I hope to buy the Linux version soon. This is sure to be a
gold mine.

Derrik Pates
dpates@cavern.nmsu.edu


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