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To: Eric Yang who wrote (7841)	1/20/1998 7:28:00 AM
From: Matt Peterson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213173

From: Eric Yang Yellow box will make applications written for it very portable between platforms. So we have very little to worry about in terms of new yellow box compliant applications. The problem is with current off the shelf X86 programs. There are two challenges we face with these programs. 1. They make Windows API calls. (Thus dependent on MSFT OS codes) 2. They are compiled for X86 processors (none PPC instruction set) There are several possible solutions that may be available to Apple. 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. 2. Rhapsody/yellow box running on Intel chips. Pro/Con: yellowbox and current X86 appls both running native. Won't be able to run Mac apps and Apple doesn't benefit in terms of selling hardware unless it goes into selling X86/Intel boxes..." ------ 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.