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echo: atari
to: Rodney Rudd
from: DAG HUGDAHL of
date: 1995-12-02 17:30:00
subject: Fire & Water (Atari8 & Un

RR>Unix programs themselves need to be recompiled to run on the hardware,
RR>which is why they are distributed as source code files.  Yes, a portable
RR>Unix 8-bit emulator is INSURMOUNTABLE.  It must be totally 100% re-coded
RR>for each and every individual hardware platform.  Look how long it has
RR>taken to produce an emulator running on Intel + VGA under MS-DOS.
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     I think that might be the problem right there! :)  I have heard that the
Rainbow emulator on the Mac does a better job.  As for where it is located,
it isn't on umich, so I'll ask on the Usenet news group.  You also wanted
to know about the Unix emulator, correct?

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