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From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney)
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Subject: Re: Mac emulator
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Date: 15 Oct 90 16:58:10 GMT
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In article <72100014@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu>, beaucham@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu writes:

>>I gravely doubt if we will ever see a Mac emulator for the NeXT, for the
>>same reason that there are no Mac clones. The Mac toolkit, for that
>>matter the entire operating system, is entirely proprietary. 

You never know. Apple is putting their next-generation portable in the hands
of a Japanese company.

>There is a product for the Atari ST which allows the Atari to run Mac
>programs "faster than a Mac Plus".  It is called "Spectre GCR". (A flyer I 
>picked up at the NAMM show doesn't give their address, but they have ads
>in Atari magazines.)  Anyway, they say it "works by taking the two ROM
>chips out of a Macintosh. 

Not to be rude, but with the Mac Classic listing at $999, and the MacPlus
going to be sold at firesale prices, it might be cheaper just to purchase a
low-end Mac, and figure out how to get your NeXT to talk to it.Maybe the
better software hack is getting AppleTalk protocols to run on the NeXT machine.