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From: martya@cpl-mfh.UUCP (Marty Adelman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Ever heard of a mac emulator?
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Date: 26 Oct 89 12:13:55 GMT
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*** In article <11074@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>,
*** jwbirdsa@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (James Webster Birdsall) writes:
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>
>   There was an XT emulator for the Mac (which, as I recall, was called
>the SoftPC and was a failure for reasons I'll get to below). But I don't
>think anybody has written a Mac emulator for the PC...
>

SoftPC is hardly a failure on the MAC.  It was designed to run on a 68020 
or better, i.e. a MAC II or SE/30.  It runs at about the pace of an original
XT, which for many purposes is adequate ( I wouldn't want to do any statistics
on it though.)  while I still don't know why anyone would want to run IBM
PC software on a MAC when you can just import the data into a MAC application
if you need it, it does do a good job of emulation.  I have run it at a store
that I help out at and it seems to run everything I throw at it, even 
Norton utilities.  I have only had one program refuse to run and it was a 
trivial editor.  The program will even boot from a floppy if you have the
new apple superdrive in you MAC.  

Please to not rank something as a failure unless you have tried it and specify
your criteria.

Marty