PowerMacPGP

[Derek Atkins]

Forwarded with permission. ;-)

FYI: I saw a Power PC yesterday, and asked about running standard Mac Apps,
and was told it would do it, but not get the Power PC speedups...

-derek

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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 17:10:42 -0800
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To: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
From: plaz at netcom.com (Plaz)
Subject: Re: PowerMacPGP

Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> replies to someone.
>> Does anyone know if Mr. Zimmerman or anyone else will be writing a
>> Power Macint -osh PGP porgram.  What about the other popular
>> encryption programs.  Thanks,
>
>The source code is available. If you have a C compiler, it shouldn't
>be very hard to build.  Then again its a Macintosh, so who really
>knows?  I don't expect to see Phil to do it, since Phil hasn't done
>any coding for PGP.  Also, I don't think that PowerMacs are prominent
>enough for developers to have them, yet.


I am 99.9% certain that MacPGP will run on a PowerMac, in emulation mode.
Some time soon someone will get around to recompiling for native mode.

For the original poster: PowerMac is supposed to run all Macintosh OS based
programs, right out of the box. No porting of the programs is required.
They run slower than native apps, but they run as fast as they would on
most Macs now.

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