From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9923b1c3be80099b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) Subject: Re: Ada on the Mac (was: AppletMagic stuff) Date: 1996/10/08 Message-ID: <53ci2v$fef$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 187962632 references: <324BF60E.4DEF@gsfc.nasa.gov> <5395s7$bu8@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <1996Oct7.100737.1@eisner> <53b87u$bm9@felix.seas.gwu.edu> organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia nntp-posting-user: ok newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-10-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) writes: >I agree with you. If Tenon comes to see this as a business advantage, >maybe they will do it. IMHO, the way to go is not to worry too much >about the 68k as a _host_, but rather to focus on a PPC-hosted >cross-compiler capable of producing fat (68k+PPC) binaries. Ahem. Apple will sell you something called MAE (Macintosh Application Environment). What is it? It's a complete System 7.1, with some 7.5 bits, running on SPARC/UNIX and HPPA/HPUX systems. (The opposite of MachTen.) According to the documentation I have, it does this by translating >>68k<< code to SPARC or HPPA native code on the fly. The document makes no mention of translartion PPC instructions to anything else. This suggests that a rather nice development environment might be to use a MAE-emulated 68k as the host for UNIX work... -- Australian citizen since 14 August 1996. *Now* I can vote the xxxs out! Richard A. O'Keefe; http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/%7Eok; RMIT Comp.Sci.