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To: Matt Peterson who wrote (7859)	1/20/1998 11:22:00 AM
From: Eric Yang	Read Replies (1) of 213173

4. Use the PCC native Win API calls from the PPC version of NT and your favorite x86 emulator. With the native APIs, Win programs should run much faster than in today's SoftWindows or Virtual PC. It's analagous to what we have today with 68k programs: (mostly) native API, with the remaining 68k parts of the program emulated. Yes...the portion of the code that provides native Win API support, together with the emulator will be called the redbox. That's what I mean by: "1)Make a redbox in Rhapsody with the help of MSFT and add OS level X86 emulator. Pro/Con: While none native it would provide reasonable performace to the user." I think we've discussed this subject a couple months back in post #6643. A interesting point that you brought up that I hadn't thought of is the possibility of "borrowing" NT's OS code to support Win API on PowerPC. I don't know enough about the details of Win95/NT OS architechture to say if this is realistic or not but I don't think APIs in Win95 are simply a subset of those in NT. Eric

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