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: jhopper@erinet.com (jim hopper) Subject: Re: Ada on the Mac (was: AppletMagic stuff) Date: 1996/10/09 Message-ID: <53fa2r$8lt@news.syspac.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 188076781 sender: full@news.syspac.com. references: <324BF60E.4DEF@gsfc.nasa.gov> <533bki$d5n@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <5395s7$bu8@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <1996Oct7.100737.1@eisner> x-authenticated: full on INN-RP host news.syspac.com. organization: Systems Solutions Inc. (Arizona's Internet Provider) newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-10-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article dewar@schonberg.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: > By the way, I find it strange that Larry should be so concerned with 68K > based Macs, for educational use it is nice to be able to support such > machines at least a little bit, but I can't see any serious interest > at a commercial level. Certainly the commercial interest we have seen > in the Mac port so far is entirely PPC based. Robert I think you misunderstand larrys point. He is not worried about running gnat on a 68k mac, most developers are using ppc. BUT there are millions of 68k macs still out there in users hands. no mac software developer would develop a powermac only applications unless that app needed more power than the 68k could provide, as you are cutting out a huge hunk of your market. what we need to attract commercial mac programmers is a ppc compiler which can spit out either ppc or 68k apps. its really not that unrealistic at this point. i have built the ppc to 68k cross to assembly before. i know how to build a cross assembler ( ihave done sparc to 68k before), the bindings to mac os we have developed are close to what we would need for 68k apps. the only real missing piece at this time is the linker, and from reading up on the ppc linker its appears that the linker really should not care if its linking a ppc fragment or a 68k fragment if it follows apples guidelines. [i do admit i might be real wrong here, but my reading so far is encouraging] i am going to be talking to tenon about this when we get native tasking complete. jim