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Received: from sloth.swcp.com (sloth.swcp.com [198.59.115.25]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA28889 for <Executor@nacm.com>; Sat, 8 Jul 1995 16:27:24 -0700 Received: from iclone.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by sloth.swcp.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with UUCP id RAA24122; Sat, 8 Jul 1995 17:27:23 -0600 Received: from beaut.ardi.com by mailhost with smtp (nextstep Smail3.1.29.0 #11) id m0sUjFQ-000YbmC; Sat, 8 Jul 95 17:25 MDT Received: by beaut.ardi.com (linux Smail3.1.28.1 #5) id m0sUjFQ-00000BC; Sat, 8 Jul 95 17:25 MDT Message-Id: <m0sUjFQ-00000BC@beaut.ardi.com> Date: Sat, 8 Jul 95 17:25 MDT From: ctm@ardi.com (Clifford Thomas Matthews) To: Jeffrey A Halverson <halv0019@gold.tc.umn.edu> Cc: Executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: A few non-critical questions and comments... In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9507061216.A4234-0100000@gold.tc.umn.edu> References: <Pine.3.89.9507061216.A4234-0100000@gold.tc.umn.edu> Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Jeff" == Jeffrey A Halverson <halv0019@gold.tc.umn.edu> writes: Since this wasn't a 1.99n bug report, it was considered low priority. We've responded to most of the 1.99n bug reports by now, so I'm cleaning out some of my other e-mail. Jeff> I have a question about the future the way that ardi sees: Jeff> Will I be able to install the MacOS on a partition on my Jeff> hard drive using your synthetic CPU in the future? Is this Jeff> something that is plausible? The idea being that I could Jeff> have an entire MacOS partition, a VFAT partition, a Linux Jeff> ext2fs and an OS/2 hpfs and have a boot manager select which Jeff> operating system to start up... Putting Executor in a partition by itself wouldn't be hard to do. In fact, if you're facile with Linux, you may be able to do it already. However, *running* executor from a Mac partition is not doable until you can run Executor as a stand alone program sans DOS, sans Linux, sans NEXTSTEP. This may *never* happen. We like the Executor/Linux pair so much that it might make sense to have a stripped down Linux installation that includes Executor for people who want to run Executor only and don't care about Linux, but that would then probably require another partition. Jeff> Then of course, If I need Jeff> to access the Mac Programs while under either DOS, OS/2 or Jeff> LINUX, I could fire up the emulator, and access the Jeff> partition. The advantage being that If an app doesn't work Jeff> under the emulator, I could resort to rebooting the native Jeff> MacOS, but mostly I could stay comfortable in my LINUX Jeff> environment. (I guess I'm speculating on what sort of deal Jeff> it is that you may be able to spark with Apple, in version Jeff> >2.0 with buying the actual MacOS7.5) Well, nothing much is happening between ARDI and Apple right now. Jeff> Additionally, I would like to say "thanks ardi!" for your Jeff> generosity of contributing the mac-fs to someone who will Jeff> implement it on Linux! I'm really impressed with your Jeff> "saintly" philosophy! :-) I can of course, see how this will Jeff> help out both you and the linux community. (Anyone who Jeff> doesn't know what I'm talking about, read their new FAQ! Jeff> Great job on the FAQ!) Thanks. Some people will claim we're not giving away enough, some people will wonder why we give anything away. Jeff> And in case I haven't gone way off on speculations yet, how Jeff> about this: Has there been any talk with the Caldera people? Jeff> They are trying real hard to make Linux commercially viable, Jeff> mainly via Windows support (as in MS-Win), perhaps they can Jeff> find a shortcut in support of Executor... ?? We've made ourselves known to the Caldera people, but we haven't given them a sales pitch (yet). --Cliff