anthonjw@clutx.clarkson.edu (Jason W. Anthony) (09/30/90)
From comp.sys.mac: |> SO! My question (finally...) is: Does this mean that eventually there'll |> be a mac emulator for the NeXT? Personally, I think that a mac emulator |> and a disk drive that'd read mac disks (I know, there's one available...) |> would sell a hell of a lot of computers. >YES! > >There will be an implementation of ROMlib for every machine we can get >our hands >on. Initially there will be an implementation of Executor for every >machine that >has a 680x0 and a UNIX filesystem that we can get our hands on; hopefully the >requirement for a UNIX filesystem will go away shortly and eventually the >requirement for the 680x0 will go away. The biggest impediment to us bringing >up ROMlib and Executor on a Next is that we don't have one. Right now I'm too >stubborn to buy another machine (I personally funded ARDI from the beginning >including paying full $13,000 for a Sun3/60 a few years ago). If a >company can't >see to lend or give us a machine then we're going to wait a bit to do the >port. > >If you have any pull with any hardware company that produces equipment on >which >you'd like to see ROMlib or Executor run on then I'm all ears. In the >meantime >if you can get a SUN3 and you'd like to play with ROMlib/Executor we'd love to >sell you a copy. > >Clifford T. Matthews >1650 University Blvd. NE >Albuquerque, NM 87102 Hey, can someone pass this along to someone at NeXT! A Mac emulator on the NeXT would be great! Then no one would have a reason to buy a Mac! (RomLIB, by the way, is a series of routines that allow a Unix system to implement Macintosh programs. Direct source-code can be ported from the Mac to a RomLIB-loaded computer with almost no changes. See comp.sys.mac.announce for more info.) __________________________________________________________________ Jason W. Anthony anthonjw@clutx.clarkson.edu //// /| Computer Engineering / / | Clarkson University, Potsdam N.Y. / / /--| ____________________________________________________ ///. / |.