rreiner@yunexus.YorkU.CA (Richard Reiner) (10/03/90)
AU/X will run MacOS applications iff they are "32 bit clean." Noone local has been able to tell me what this means, however. Could some kind soul help out? In particular, can post-compilation processing convert a non-32 bit clean app into a 32 bit clean one? And what proportion of today's off-the-shelf Mac software is 32 bit clean? Thanks.
wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins) (10/03/90)
In article <15735@yunexus.YorkU.CA> rreiner@yunexus.YorkU.CA (Richard Reiner) writes: >In particular, can post-compilation processing >convert a non-32 bit clean app into a 32 bit clean one? And what >proportion of today's off-the-shelf Mac software is 32 bit clean a) No, a 32-bit dirty app stays so forever until recompiled or patched with a patch tailored to the application. b) I've run my system using 7.0a9 in 32-bit mode for several weeks at a time. I'd say about 4/5 of the available apps are 32-bit clean, including Mathematica (thankfully! And surprising because of Mathematica's design). However, I've not found a 32-bit clean word processor, or at least I haven't found a word processor which doesn't bomb in 32-bit mode. The only exception is MacWrite II, which doesn't seem to crash unless you print something. -- Mark Wilkins -- ******* "Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude!" ********** *-----------------------------------------------------------------------------* * Mark R. Wilkins wilkins@jarthur.claremont.edu {uunet}!jarthur!wilkins * ****** MARK.WILKINS on AppleLink ****** MWilkins on America Online ******
woan@peyote.cactus.org (Ronald S. Woan) (10/03/90)
Unbelievable! An AU/X question in the AIX newsgroup... Hmmm... 32-bit clean... Double word alignment? Addressing modes.... Hmmm... Sigh, too much wasted bandwidth for one day, Ron -- +-----All Views Expressed Are My Own And Are Not Necessarily Shared By------+ +------------------------------My Employer----------------------------------+ + Ronald S. Woan woan@peyote.cactus.org or woan%austin@iinus1.ibm.com + + othernet Prodigy: XTCR74A Compuserve: 73530,2537 +