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Re: What's a good example program with this bug?



In article <v02140b03ad962d780dd5@[199.246.2.122]>,
weismand@limestone.kosone.com (Dwight  W Weisman) wrote:

> >P.S.S. Will Executor ever
> >support Copeland?
> 
> If Apple supports 68040 Macs then Executor is automatically support if they
> can pull off the "drop".  I have it on fairly reliable word that they
> intend to, but that may change.

Apple plans to continue to support 680x0 Macs, but to varying degrees.
(And their track record is good: 7.5.3, the latest system, runs on a 1986
6800 Mac Plus today without any change in hardware. A hard disk and enough
RAM is all that may be missing)

But Copland is a different story. It is being specifically designed to get
the most from the PowerPC macs. My understanding is that System 7 will
continue to be tweaked for 680x0 machines, but System 8 (Copland), System
9 (Gershwin) etc. will only run on the RISC machines. I don't know what
emulation can do with this--it would have to emulate an entirely different
processor.

-- 
Marc Bodine
New York, NY


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