Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!usc!jarthur!petunia!news From: mdeale@spica.acs.calpoly.edu (Myron (the one in Calif.) Deale) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Mac emulator Message-ID: <2718c9b5.1722@petunia.CalPoly.EDU> Date: 14 Oct 90 20:25:25 GMT References: Reply-To: mdeale@spica.acs.calpoly.edu.UUCP (Myron Deale) Distribution: na Organization: ACS, Cal Poly, San Luis Lines: 29 In article aberno@questor.wimsey.bc.ca (Anthony Berno) writes: >>>> I'm wondering if there has been any news about a mac >emulator for the NeXT. I saw the post about the mac emulator >a while ago, and was wondering if any progress had been made. > >Keith Perkins > >I gravely doubt if we will ever see a Mac emulator for the NeXT, for the >same reason that there are no Mac clones. The Mac toolkit, for that Not to contradict you ... >matter the entire operating system, is entirely proprietary. >Furthermore, the way Mac toolbox calls are executed (direct ROM >addressing to the routines on the ROM chips) makes me doubt that it ... but, the '030 and '040 have Memory Management Units built in which should enable you to keep the existing (logical) ROM addresses, etc., while physically placing the executable anywhere. Lots of other problems to solve though, I would guess. >would be feasible. I know nothing about emulating other computers, but >it seems to me that it would be especially difficult for the Mac >even if you did know their secret ROM code and had a license to boot. -Myron