Macintosh Application Environment (virtual Mac in X on Unix)

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I didn’t expect to see a Mac interface in a CDE(?) wrapper…

Macintosh Application Environment is a software application that provides a virtual Macintosh environment in an X window to users of HP workstations running HP-UX or later SPARCstations running Solaris.

Through 68LC040 emulation and native extensions, MAE lets users run off-the-shelf Mac OS-compatible, 680x0-based business productivity applications. MAE provides interoperability with other Mac OS-based systems in the enterprise, with the ability to easily manipulate UNIX files and execute UNIX applications from within a Macintosh environment. Users can also copy and paste text and graphics between UNIX and Mac OS-compatible applications

via Ballagyr

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I am curious how fast the emulation was. I don’t think that Suns SPACR CPUs were too fast…

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Probably pretty good (“performance was OK on Ultra 2”), bearing in mind the CPU being emulated wasn’t especially fast. See the white paper for a glimpse of the technology:

Some code blocks are translated to native code automatically by dynamic compilation. Other code blocks take advantage of manually entered native code patches.

Edit: more MAE screenshots here.

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Now try running A/UX on the thing :slight_smile:

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For some time, I had it the other way round, running Solaris 8 (x86) with CDE on a Power Mac via Virtual PC 6 (still the Connectix one, before MS bought it). It did work, at least for testing some custom scripts.

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