7 Dec
2005
7 Dec
'05
11:40 p.m.
Rumor has it that Jim Leonard may have mentioned these words:
Cameron Kaiser wrote:
What bothers me is: How hard is it to include an emulator?
I don't think it's a case of "how hard is it" but rather "how hard
will it
be to support?"
If they don't support 68K apps, then when someone calls and says "My old
app `zonk` doesn't work anymore" the support answer is "Upgrade.
<click>"
instead of "Well, let's see.... how can we fix this..." for the next 3
hours.
What's
really water under the bridge is 16-bit mode in Windows. Vista
doesn't support it, period. Maybe someone will write a 16-bit emulator
PPC applications written for the G3 under Carbon. That means Classic apps
-- including 68K apps -- will probably die in the future. Who cares if the emulator is 100x as slow as the
real thing when you're
running it on a machine that is capable of running OS X or Windows Vista?
Look at the heartburn that Winders users have when trying to run an ancient
app, and the cruft that comes along for the ride to make it (kinda) happen.
I think it's solely a support issue that they're trying to avoid by setting
these limits.... but that's just a personal view, I just might be full of
condensed milk on this. ;-)
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
--
Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers
zmerch at 30below.com
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