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From: minich@d.cs.okstate.edu (Robert Minich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Mac emulator
Message-ID: <1990Oct15.193307.11492@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 15 Oct 90 19:33:07 GMT
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Organization: Oklahoma State University
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by sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney):
| 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.

  There is already a free package to do AppleTalk protocols on UNIX boxes.
It even includes file serving and print spooling. Apparently noone in this
group has heard about a little company working on cloning the Mac ROMs
(Plus level). At this point, they have real live software running on
Suns to 1) allow compiling of Mac source code and 2) use Mac binaries.
The author posted to a Mac newsgroup not too long ago and said that
he'll try to get code running on any hardware you like but he can't
afford to go out and buy everyones' favorite machine. (ie, get NeXT to
lend him a machine for a while and you may very well have a Mac emulator
running.) I can't remember for sure, but I believe X Windows was also
required.
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