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- In article <4jeaau$90n@newsbf02.news.aol.com>,
- ClockCHWC <clockchwc@aol.com> wrote:
- >>>Emulating a PowerMac would take some serious effort. It seems like it
- >>>would be almost impossible with the current Intel Technology.
-
- I don't see how you can make this statement. First of all Mat H,
- who wrote the emulator for executor will tell you that there is
- no technical reason why his emulator cannot be used for the
- PowerPC instruction set. I think that he will show you that this
- is possible (when he finds time).
-
- >This is quite a depressing thought. I don't see how Executor can keep up
- >with the pace at which new applications are being made (mostly for
- >PowerMac now).
-
- hmm. When the installed base of PowerMacs becomes 2-3 times the size of
- the installed base of 68k macs, then you will *start* to have difficulty.
- Does anyone know what this ratio is now? My guess is that there are still
- more 68k macs in use than PowerMacs (although it is probably closing
- in)
-
- > I really want to see Executor become huge, but it can't
- >really if it can't keep up.
-
- In order to keep up, it is more of an issue to support system7...
- but by the time ardi gets to it, apple may be pushing copeland.
- There is little hope of ardi being closer than a few years behind
- apple (unless they can manage to license the os)
-
- > People won't want to run older software,
- >they'll want to run the most current apps.
-
- This is perhaps the worst of all of you statements, because many people
- don't like or need the most current apps. A perfect example is
- Microsoft Word. There are more people that I know using Word 5.1, then
- the slow memory hungry 6.0.
-
- Mike
-
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- Michael Gile | Graduate Assistant
- gilem@rpi.edu | Computer & Systems Engineering
- | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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