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Received: from Ika.umn.edu (dialup-4-21.gw.umn.edu [128.101.96.21]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA20384 for <executor@nacm.com>; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 14:38:06 -0800 Received: (from jeff@localhost) by Ika.umn.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA02236; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 16:36:54 -0600 Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 16:36:43 -0600 (CST) From: "Jeffrey A. Halverson" <jeff@Ika.umn.edu> Reply-To: halv0019@gold.tc.umn.edu To: executor@nacm.com Subject: RE: CHRP and PREP systens In-Reply-To: <m0tJ4XM-000GOwC@gwar.ardi.com> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.951124163012.2068B-100000@Ika.umn.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk 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