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From: jdm@gssc.UUCP (John David Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Pee Cee emulation on the NeXT
Message-ID: <6044@gssc.UUCP>
Date: 9 Oct 89 23:14:01 GMT
References: <1989Oct3.212426.795@i-core.UUCP> <17047@brunix.UUCP>
Reply-To: jdm@gssc.UUCP (John David Miller)
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PC emulation is NOT what you want, for the reasons already mentioned, plus
one other: DOS apps were not designed to share the hardware.

a more interesting scenario is a MAC emulator for the NeXT.  this seems
much more plausible for several reasons:

	- same processor
	- both windowing environments
	- MAC apps are being converted to be "32-bit clean" for multi-tasking
	- there is enough high-quality MAC software available to make the
	NeXT box a viable option to apple hardware, should a reasonable
	emulator be available.

you can't tell me steve jobs hasn't thought about this!!

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