![]() Holmdel, New Jersey-based Echo Logic Inc provided Apple with its FlashPort tools to help the effort along, producing a binary to binary translation of the 68000 code and producing native PowerPC code. A multi-mode code switcher will enable 68000 and new PowerPC applications code to run side by side. Many Macintosh applications, such as PageMaker and Quark XPress, spend up to 90% of processing time within the Toolbox, according to Apple, which is why a native implementation was developed. The portions of the application that do have to be emulated can be loaded in via floppy disk. Macintosh Application Services includes the Macintosh System 7 Finder (although System 6 was demonstrated), a Motorola 68040 emulator, the native toolkit, and Macintosh System Services for memory management and input-output to files and devices. Such technologies are becoming available not only for the Macintosh, but also for Microsoft Corp Windows, and are likely to be in evidence at UniForum this week. ![]() The Macintosh Application Services software previewed at the IBM PowerOpen launch last week (CI No 2,123) is an indication of the growing popularity of binary-to-binary conversion techniques over straightforward emulation, which is still associated with poor performance.
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