[Oberon] native oberon for powerpc

B. Smith-Mannschott bsmith at cs.oberlin.edu
Tue Aug 23 20:08:36 CEST 2005


Smoke Bellew writes:
>Hello.
>Excuse me I did not understand cleanly, is MacOberon running on a
>powerpc natively or it should be run on top of macos ?
>
>The reason I asking you is I want to buy Apple 100mhz 16mg RAM laptop
>if it can run oberon natively. If not, I wouldn't buy it ;)

MacOberon will not run on the bare hardware.  It runs as an
application on the "Classic" Mac operating system.

It does, however, run "natively" in the sense that it runs native
PowerPC code, as opposed to using the 68LC040 emulator included in the
Mac OS to run MC68K code.

hth
Ben



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