[WinMac] Re: 68k emulator on PPC Macs


Dan Schwartz(expresso[at]snip.net)
Sun, 17 Jan 1999 06:58:32 -0500


        No, Marc: Spindler was Chief Engineer over the whole PowerMac project. And
Spindler is a textbook case of "the Peter principle."

At 08:01 PM 1/16/99 -0600, Marc wrote:
>On 1/16/99 at 2:57 PM -0500, Dan Schwartz wrote:
>> That is quite true: Michael "Diesel" Spindler, who was chief
>> engineer on
>> the original PowerMac project came up with a bulletproof 68020 hardware
>> emulator in ROM with slow, but reliable toolbox routines.
>
>You're not saying that Michael Spinder wrote the 68k emulator, are
>you? Because it was someone else, whose name I forget, and who know
>works for Connectix and was part of the team that wrote VirtualPC.
>
> --Marc

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