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From: covertr@force.UUCP (Richard E. Covert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Shareware MAC
Summary: That's It!!
Message-ID: <475d4d9a.14a1f@force.UUCP>
Date: 11 Dec 89 16:31:49 GMT
References: <22472@brunix.UUCP>
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In article <22472@brunix.UUCP>, mjv@iris.brown.edu (Marshall Vale) writes:
>  The product that I think Tim was talking about was a cross compiling 
> system that emulated toolbox routines on the IBM PC. By taking 
> legal-working
> Mac C source code and compiling it with this special compiler, you could
> get it to run on the PC.  I'm assuming that they wrote their own windowing
> system and look and such but basically used the same names and arguments
> in their toolbox as in the Mac.  It was big about a 1 year ago and haven't
> heard much since.
> 

That is the tool that I was referring to. It was a special 'C' library
that allowed you to compile Mac C code on an IBM PC. Then the new PC code
would execute EXACTLY the same as the Mac code. it seems like a simple enough
idea.

And it seemed like a real neat idea. Because you could port the 'C' Library
to other machines, such as the Atari ST. Then, MicroSoft could recompile their
MS WORD for the ST. It would open up a whole world of Mac software for the
ST. And the PC. And the Amiga.

It is a shame that the library isn't readily available.


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