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From: anthonjw@clutx.clarkson.edu (Jason W. Anthony)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Mac programs on a NeXT?
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Date: 29 Sep 90 22:29:37 GMT
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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.)

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