Re: PC-Ditto speed "XDOS"

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From: Todd Burkey
Date: Thu, 05 May 1988 01:16

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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.

We called the XDOS people recently (interested in using it on Sun's).
It appears that they have several programs 'ported' using XDOS and
they were willing to help 'port' programs for us. I got the strong
feelings that there is a lot of binary 'patching' going on in this
porting process. It definitely didn't sound like we could copy
something like flight simulator over to the Sun and run it after some
magical (i.e. automatic) transform by XDOS...of course, I am using
flight simulator as an example, since we wouldn't think of wasting
time playing games on an expensive Sun :-).

  -Todd Burkey      "A member of STdNET-The ST developers' Network"
   trb@stag.UUCP

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From: trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey )
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Subject: Re: PC-Ditto speed "XDOS"
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Date: 5 May 88 01:16:27 GMT
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