Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!its63b!hwcs!neil
From: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: PC-Ditto speed "XDOS"
Message-ID: <1805@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>
Date: 2 May 88 08:00:58 GMT
References: <2882@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
Organization: Compooter Science, Heriot-Watt U., Scotland
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In article <2882@crash.cts.com> fred@pnet01.cts.com (Fred Brooks) writes:
>What we really need is a product like 'XDOS'. XDOS takes a MS-DOS program
>and converts it to 680X0 machine code. When this is done the program often
>runs faster then the INTEL machine it was written for. This product is already
>running on UN*X systems maybe someone will get an ST version.

Interesting but I wonder what XDOS does about vector tables in the data
segment since Intel and Motorola store longwords differently ie. reversed.
And then there is always the clowns who pervert the idea by putting data in
the code segment.

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