Re: XY on a Mac

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

flash wrote:
> ≪Just to be clear: you're saying that VPC won't run on OSX 10.4 and
> later? ≫
>
> I'm not sure that VPC won't run under OSX 10.4.
I _think_ I recall that the problem is that VPC won't run on
Intel Macs. (Microsludge wouldn't dare!)
> I'm guessing here, that what "porting" amounts to in practice is writing
> XPL code and creating an API (application programming interface).
Afraid not. Xy was written in Assembler: direct access to the
Intel (and AMD) hardware. It would have to be rewritten from
scratch to port it. And anyway, there's a legal issue: the code
is owned by someone who won't release it.

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Patricia M. Godfrey
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