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From: omh@cs.brown.edu (Owen M. Hartnett)
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Subject: Re: running DOS pgm on Mac?
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Date: 10 Jun 90 03:10:20 GMT
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A couple of things I don't like about SoftPC (besides the fact that
it's slow, however, the AT-EGA option make it livable but not tremendous):

There's currently no way to format a 720K diskette using the SuperDrive
so that it's bootable under DOS.  I've called the company and they've
conceded this.  So, if you need to produce bootable 720K disks, you have
to copy them from other bootable 720K disks.

Here's another one that bothers me, although it should be easy to fix:

If you have the SuperDrive *and* the Apple 5.25" drive, you can't have
one drive be drive a: and the other be drive b:  -- you can only use
one drive at a time (plus the hard disk that softPC builds for you).

Otherwise, it does a pretty neat job and is great for transferring files
from IBM to Mac realm.  I've even been prowling the nets looking for
PD and shareware software for IBM just to check it out.

-Owen
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Owen Hartnett				omh@cs.brown.edu.CSNET
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