Re: Mac Emulation

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From: Martin Nisshagen
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 21:00

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Clifford, T., Matthews, <ctm@ardi.com> wrote:

> It depends on what your day to day work is.  Executor running compute
> intensive programs *if they work*, on a 90 MHz Pentium will run about
> 60% faster than they would on a 25 MHz 68040 base Mac.  At ARDI we
> wrote a 100 page manual running Microsoft Word for the Macintosh under
> Executor (Microsoft Word is not available for Linux).  Our customers
> have other uses for Executor.

Wouldn't it make much more sense for Linux users to devlop some Windows
emulation and simply run Word for Windows instead? That way You only
have to emulate the API:s, but not the CPU (if You run Linux x86).

m a r t i n  n

-- 
Martin Nisshagen
mts@cd.chalmers.se (MIME 1.0)
http://www.cd.chalmers.se/~mts/martin

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From: Martin Nisshagen <d4nisse@dtek.chalmers.se>
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Subject: Re: Mac Emulation
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 22:00:40 +0100
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