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From: mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael Thomas Niehaus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Can I run IBM PC software on Mac II?
Message-ID: <7877@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Date: 22 Jun 89 03:43:58 GMT
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In article <14371@ut-emx.UUCP>, nghiem@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Alex Nghiem) writes:
> [suggestion to buy a clone in addition to the Mac instead of a
> DOS coprocessor or DOS software emulation]
> 
> The disadvantage of this setup is that you can not have DOS and
> Mac process the same files simultaneously. With the AST coprocessor,
> you can network the D: drive to a Macintosh folder.

Just to clarify this discussion:

All of AST's Macintosh products have been sold to Orange Micro.  They are
supporting them fully from what I gather.  If you get MacWEEK, check out
their advertisement in 23 May 89 issue on page 10.  For those of you who
don't, here is a summary:

*  Contains it own memory (4 256K SIMMs if I remember correctly)
*  Rates an 8.2 on the Norton Computing Index, six times faster than an XT.
*  Software packages such as MS-Windows (that would be really cute), AutoCad,
   Lotus 1-2-3, Lotus Symphony, and Flight Simulator run with the Mac286,
   as well as most (if not all) compilers.
*  Has the ability to copy and paste graphics from an MS-DOS application into
   Macintosh applications.
*  Supports easy file transfers between MS-DOS and Mac file systems.

If you haven't seen one, you should.  With version 2.0 of the Mac drivers,
the system performance was very good.  (For those of you who remember the
slow screen update of the 1.X versions, 2.0 is a major improvement.)

-Michael

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