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- >>>>> "Bill" == Bill Miller <wjm@wwa.com> writes:
-
- Bill> I was wondering, what would happen if I were to install
- Bill> system 7.x on = top of Executor.
-
- I would guess that it will crash immediately, since we don't support
- low-level I/O operations.
-
- Bill> If you don't know, I may be able to try it at school. = We
- Bill> have a site license for System 7, and a bunch of macs that
- Bill> have the = DOS compatibility cards, and a T1 link to the
- Bill> net.
-
- That site license is for Macs, so putting one of those copies of
- System 7 on top of Executor on a PC is probably a violation of the
- license, even if you were to put it on the DOS compatibility card
- within the Mac, although I am not a lawyer and I haven't seen the
- terms of our site license.
-
- My understanding was that Executor wouldn't run on the DOS cards
- inside of Macs. Is that the case, or not?
-
- Bill> The other question is, can it be done in under 10 minutes
- Bill> under = Executor?
-
- Bill> I think that by putting Apple System 7.5, you will
- Bill> elliminate the = problems, because they all (at least the
- Bill> program crashes I have = observed) seem to come from the
- Bill> faked system 6 implementation. Your = Syn68K seems to run
- Bill> fine, if it can run PhotoShop, and Pagemaker, and =
- Bill> Illustrator.
-
- Yes and no. Syn68k is pretty solid, indeed. The problem is there's
- more to a Mac than a CPU and the ROMs/System File; there's also all
- sorts of I/O and "glue" that holds everything together. To write the
- glue and to get it correct, we'd need to disassemble what the glue
- connects to (i.e. the ROMs and System File). That would turn our
- "clean" engineers into "dirty" engineers -- that's a price that's too
- high for us.
-
- Once we have enough money to be able to afford a dirty team that is
- separated from the clean team, then we can do what you propose. We're
- hoping that 2.0 sales will give us that money. If not, we'll probably
- have to start dealing with venture capital people, something we've
- avoided so far.
-
- Bill> Just out of curiosity, why not make it a Dynamic recompiler,
- Bill> so that it = only needs to be translated once. Do the same
- Bill> thing Connectix Speed = Doubler does.
-
- Executor is a dynamic recompiler, which is why we get speeds better
- than what Connectix Speed Doubler does. Check out
- ftp://ftp.ardi.com/pub/SynPaper for more details.
-
- Bill> Bill Miller wjm@wwa.com
- Bill> w-miller@flamingo.district125.k12.il.us
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
-
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