[HECnet] Alpha Emulators for OS X

[Dan B]

Heh.   C'mon.   It's a GIGANTIC commercial platform.   People who aren't
porting to OS X now will be porting to OS X later.

Dave, I would not be so sure. I'm more inclined to think that Apple
may bail out entirely from that market, like HP seems to be
evaluating, for Apple, the iLine of gadgets is the bread and butter.

For now if you "have to" run on OSX, I would stick to VAX, on Simh and
GXEmul, both supported, the future may bring better news and options,
QEMU-KVM maybe one.



On 2/16/13, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 02/16/2013 01:36 PM, Michael Holmes wrote:
Just looked like there wasn't any more efforts focusing on Mac OS X,
since its not a large commercial platform.

  Heh.   C'mon.   It's a GIGANTIC commercial platform.   People who aren't
porting to OS X now will be porting to OS X later.

  Better yet, though, would be to write the software in a portable
fashion in the first place, and avoid using OS X's hokey whiz-bang
"extensions" to UNIX.   Then, very litte "porting" will be necessary,
whichever direction you're going.   It's readily possible; I've been
doing it for years.

                              -Dave

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