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From: cyliao@hardy.u.washington.edu (Chun-Yao Liao)
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Subject: Re: A-Max for the NeXT?
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Date: 30 Sep 90 03:28:29 GMT
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In article <9009292029.AA07530@en.ecn.purdue.edu> hauer@EN.ECN.PURDUE.EDU (Corey Hauer) writes:
>
>Subject: A-Max for the NeXT?
>Newsgroups: comp.sys.next 
>
>I would like to know if a product like A-Max for the Amiga would be possible
>on the NeXT.  I think that a NeXT and this product would make it possible for
>NeXT to take away much more of Apple's market share.  Imagine a machine with
>the power of the NeXT AND the 1000's of macintosh applications available.  I
>know the Amiga version of this product costs less than $200, but you must
>purchase a legal set of 128k mac ROMs which seem to be readily available.
>This would make an 040 pseudo-mac less than $4000.00.  I am very unfamiliar
>with NeXT programing, but from what I've heard, the development time is far
>less than other platforms.
> 
>Opinions?

	I am not very familiar with low-end Macs, if the Mac plus can run
	most of the "1000's of machintosh applications", how about get one
	of those $499 macplus and connect it to your NeXT via serial port?
	The "DataViz" is boubdled with NeXT so file transfering shouldn't 
	be hard. And after all, it IS 100% Mac if anyone doubt about an
	emulator (such as A-Max) is not very compatible.



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