[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:

> 
> On 05.06.2014, at 17:42, gettimothy <gettimothy at zoho.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Casey,
>> 
>> 68000, noted thx
>> 
>> Hi Bert.
>> 
>> >>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.
>> 
>> oy....
>> 
>> I think I will keep it simple and let the people who actually own Macs decide how best to arrange things.
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks for your help.
>> 
>> tty
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> - Bert -
> 
> 

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