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From: gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
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Subject: Re: ROMLIB (the unix mac-emulator) question
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Date: 28 Sep 90 04:41:54 GMT
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In article <1990Sep27.203806.7406@unmvax.cs.unm.edu>, ctm@tingley.cs.unm.edu (Clifford T. Matthews) writes...
 
>In article <2448@ns-mx.uiowa.edu>, rnelson@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu
>(Cardinal Fang) writes:
>|> 
>|> I recently read about ROMLIB , a macintosh emulator for SUNS and other
>|> flavors of unix.  I believe it was in c.s.i.announce, or something.
> 
>ROMlib(tm) is our "source compatibility" product.  It is essentially a UNIX
>"ar"chive and some compiliation tools that allow you to recompile the source
>to a program that was written on a Macintosh and create a binary that runs on
>the native processor.  Executor(tm) is the "emulator" that allows binaries that
>were created on the Macintosh to be run on a Sun3.



Did you reverse engineer the System to get Executor to function?  If so, then
it will probably be awhile before it can emulate 7.0.  If not, there's always
the restriction that it's illegal to run Mac systems on anything but a Mac. 
Could of course be challenged in court, but it would be a hindrance to any
emulator.

Jes curious...

Robert


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