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Differences Between PowerPC and 68K
Synthetic CPU
PowerPC Numerics
Additions:
Mixed Mode Manager
Code Fragment Manager
Exception Manager
Potential Problems:
Decompression -- could be tricky to reverse engineer, could
technically even be patented
Major sections that haven't been written
serial port support
networking
AppleTalk
TCP/IP
INIT/CDEV support
Internationalization (Script Manager)
Edition Manager,
Process Manager
Start Manager
Power Manager
SCSI Manager
Sections that need improvement
sound
AppleEvents
ADB (Apple Desktop Bus)
Filesystem
Alias Manager
PBExchangeFiles,
Balloon Help
Font Manager
True Type fonts
OutlineMetrics, FlushFonts,
some of the icon suite routines,
Printing
low level printing calls (DraftBits, NoDraftBits, GetRotn)
PrJobMerge,
Color
AddComp, DelComp
DisposCCursor
NewTempScreenBuffer
CharExtra
SaveFore, RestoreFore, SaveBack, RestoreBack
Picture Utilities
DisposePictInfo, RecordPictInfo, RecordPixMapInfo,
RetrievePictInfo, NewPictInfo, GetPictInfo
Minor work that needs to be done
GetStdFilterProc, SetDialogCancelItem, SetDialogTracksCursor,
WritePartialResource, SetResourceSize
Temporary Memory Manager
Stylized Text Edit
GDeviceChanged, PortChanged, PixPatChanged and CTabChanged need work
GetCPixel doesn't work for bpp > 8.
OpenCPicture just calls OpenPicture.
RestoreClutDevice needs work
inverse color table routines don't do a good job of discriminating
between colors that are close to each other.