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From: jwbirdsa@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (James Webster Birdsall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Ever heard of a mac emulator?
Message-ID: <11163@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 30 Oct 89 23:41:16 GMT
References: <11074@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <23793@sequent.UUCP> <-539608237@cpl-mfh.UUCP>
Reply-To: jwbirdsa@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (James Webster Birdsall)
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In article <-539608237@cpl-mfh.UUCP> martya@cpl-mfh.UUCP (Marty Adelman) writes:
=In article <11074@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>, I wrote:
=
==   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

   This is what I get for repeating what I hear without thinking. I read
about it several years ago. Whoever wrote the article thought it stank
horribly (and maybe several years ago, on vintage Macs, it did) and
implied that it had sold one copy and then died. Since I never heard
anything further about it, I saw no reason to question what I read.

   Sorry, everybody.


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