At least in theory it seems to me that e M680x0 emulator could be written, with libraries implementing the 680x0 NeXTSTEP 3.x frameworks being replaced with a translation layer which could be run in native code, implementing the NeXTstep frameworks on top of GnuStep. FreeBSD, at least, also provides a mechanism for installing handlers to support new binary format types.
Then you could run all the NeXTSTEP apps intermingled with GnuStep native apps. I don't know just how hard this would be to do in practice, and what the biggest obstacle would be (mapping 680x0 Display Postscript calls to GnuStep primitives? I'm just guessing, I have no idea), but maybe it could be a fun project for someone looking for something interesting to do. On 19 Nov 2015, at 18:30, Gregory Casamento wrote: > It won't. Lotus Improv was written using NeXTSTEP3.x. The > frameworks changed a lot between that and OpenStep. It wouldn't work > without a significant porting effort even if we could get the source. > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Adam S <[email protected]> wrote: >> Anyone know if Lotus Improv would run/work on GNUStep? >> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Improv >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss-gnustep mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep >> > > > > -- > Gregory Casamento > GNUstep Lead Developer / OLC, Principal Consultant > http://www.gnustep.org - http://heronsperch.blogspot.com > http://ind.ie/phoenix/ > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnustep mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep > _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
