Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!visix!amanda From: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Mac is software - why not on NeXT? Message-ID: Date: 20 Nov 90 15:06:30 GMT References: <2420@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <30018@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <1990Nov20.042706.29356@rice.edu> Organization: Visix Software Inc., Reston, VA Lines: 26 In article <1990Nov20.042706.29356@rice.edu> jack@Taffy.rice.edu (Jack W. Howarth) writes: [about ARDI's ROMlib] >The problem with companies that promise Mac emulation without using Mac ROMs >is they too often "talk the talk, but don't walk the walk" as it were. Well, ARDI is for real--I was a beta tester for them in a previous life. I don't know how they're marketing efforts have been going, since there seem to be very few people willing to invest in them, thanks to Apple legal intimidation. The ROMlib software itself was extrememly slick, though. [about SPARC laptop] >When they showed it at Comdex they declined to demonstrate the Mac >emulation due to Apple's legal presence. Seems understandable, especially since it's not in production yet. At some point, though, someone will probably decide to play "Truth or Dare" with Apple's legal department, which ought to be real interesting... -- Amanda Walker amanda@visix.com Visix Software Inc. ...!uunet!visix!amanda -- UNIX: The only operating system that can be destroyed by mail.