[MacPerl] A time for celebration

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

Just a few minutes into the 706th (mythical) birthday of my beloved country,
the CFM-68K version of MacPerl finally started working (as an aside: My test
machine for CFM-68K is actually a 1987 Mac II with an 68020, 8M RAM, and no
MMU. This machine has certainly aged gracefully :-). Contrary to what I'd read,
I am so far quite happy with the actual CFM-68K. Compiler and library support,
OTOH, was not quite optimal yet.

I can now report that all Toolbox module tests worked just fine with
dynamically loaded modules, so BigMacPerl is going to lose in importance in the
future (BTW, I intend to support BigMacPerl for a few more versions, but is
there anybody on the list who would both need toolbox modules and be unable to
run CFM68K on their 68K machines?).

With this last big obstacle out of the way, I expect to get enough testing into
this weekend to be able to put out a release early next week.

Matthias, who'd probably burn some celebratory fireworks if the noise and
    bright lights didn't scare him as much.

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Matthias Neeracher   <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>   http://www.iis.ee.ethz.ch/~neeri
  "... after a few more flashes in the pan, we shall hear very little more
  of Edison or his electric lamp. Every claim he makes has been tested and
  proved impracticable." -- _New York Times_, January 16, 1880


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