Re: Mike and Ward, what next?

Erik wrote:
> On the other hand, this would be a good time to move Mops to a Mach-O
> native format.  I can't recall the link, but I remember a blog
> somewhere where a developer was griping that Mach-O was a format
> optimized for the x86 architecture, not PPC.
>
> Erik

Just to add to what I wrote above, I found this interesting quote from
the comp.sys.mac.system newsgroup.  It regards Rosetta, the PowerPC
emulator for the new Mac/Intel CPUS:

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Rosetta does not run the following:

- Applications built for Mac OS 8 or 9
- Code written specifically for AltiVec
- Code that inserts preferences in the System Preferences pane
- Applications that require a G4 or G5 processor
- Applications that depend on one or more kernel extensions
- Kernel extensions
- Bundled Java applications or Java applications with JNI libraries
that can=B9t be translated

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It apparently came from:
https://developer.apple.com/do
***entation/MacOSX/Conceptual/
universal_binary/universal_binary.pdf

If that's true then Mops has to change once the Intel CPUs are in full
force.  Anything other than Mach-O format won't be sup****ted.

Erik