[Vm-dev] MacOS vs MacOSX?
Douglas McPherson
djm1329 at san.rr.com
Thu Jun 5 16:08:01 UTC 2014
The StackVM does not currently work on PPC, but Eliot is looking into it and I am going to fill out the FFI in ThreadedPPCBEFFIPlugin. So we will have a Cog/Stack VM for PPC.
Doug
On Jun 5, 2014, at 08:58 , Bert Freudenberg wrote:
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> On 05.06.2014, at 17:42, gettimothy <gettimothy at zoho.com> wrote:
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>> Hi Casey,
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>> 68000, noted thx
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>> Hi Bert.
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>> >>Well ... the "real" Mac VMs usually come as fat binaries. A single VM supports both PowerPC and Intel. E.g. Etoys (which includes the Mac VM) runs fine on both PowerPC and new Macs.
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>> oy....
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>> I think I will keep it simple and let the people who actually own Macs decide how best to arrange things.
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>> Thanks for your help.
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>> tty
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> Nah, I didn't want to discourage you. The interpreter VM on Mac is not maintained currently anyway. The Stack VM might work on PPC but I don't think anyone ever tried. And I don't know even know for sure if Squeak ever worked on a 68K Mac (although I suppose it did) - Apple switched to PowerPC in 1994 and Squeak was released in 1996. Supporting 68K would be just for completeness, not much actual usefulness.
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> - Bert -
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