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> clean room reimplementation of Mac OS 9

Wow. Was the project successful? Where can we read more about it? Was it a perfect implementation - all the images in the right places pixel by pixel?



http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executor_(software)

Source is at https://github.com/ctm/executor

I think the OP is of by two OS versions, but I didn't work at ARDI, so I may be wrong.


No, it looks like you're right, I misremembered. I haven't thought about this in a long time.

Whoa, Cliff open-sourced Executor. I didn't know that.


> Was the project successful?

As a business? No. As a hack? It was compatible with quite a bit of software and with syn68k on a Pentium whatever of the time, it was faster than any Mac.




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