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- > Why doesn't Ardi work on making Executor CHRP and or PREP
- >compliant. What I mean is, Apple is making the new OS platform
- >independant. If Ardi were to make Executor make a standard x86
- >system look like a CHRP or PREP compliant system, you could run
- >either natively, or in emulation, Copland (system 8). This would
- >give you all the system 7 functionality, and then allow you to run
- >all Mac apps. This would require a heavy duty processor, but Apple
- >should like the idea because it gets the Mac OS in front of a whole
- >new crowd without forcing them to by new computers. After a while,
- >people can then upgrade to a full fledged Mac, or continue to use
- >E/x.
-
- First Copland will never run on a PREP machine according to Apple.
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- And if you look at the CHRP specs, you will notice to run Copland the
- machine has to have ROM space for Mac ROM's. (Either in a slot or a
- SIMM socket) That mean ARDI would have to either totally emulate the
- Mac ROM's (What they are trying to do now.) or figure out how to
- design a card that would take a standard pc ISA slot and adapt it to
- make the system look like a CHRP machine and accept Apple's ROM.
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- Michael
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