[comp.sys.amiga] Emulators for Amiga, and extending Technicalese

daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) (10/12/88)

in article <3586.AA3586@heimat>, sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein) says:

>  Dave H. has already explained why its easier to emulate the Mac vs the IBM.

I was thinking for some time that a case like the Mac OS on the Amiga should have
a name other than "emulator".  As I said before, it's really more of an OS port
than an emulator, though since it's not with the blessing of the owner of that
OS code, some degree of emulation or trickery must exist to make that OS think
it's on a Mac.  The Mac being [A] very simple, hardware-wise, and [B] supported
by a decent ROM Kernel that most applications use, makes me thing there's still
more porting than emulating going on.  In any case, the name I came up with was
"Hostile Port".  Whaddaya think?  	

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