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From: don@brahms.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IBM Mac emulator!
Message-ID: <16415@brahms.udel.edu>
Date: 3 Dec 90 03:34:27 GMT
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In article <2759590c-3672.1comp.sys.amiga-1@tronsbox.xei.com> bleys@tronsbox.xei.com (Bill Cavanaugh) writes:
>>NO!, and that it was not possible with a ?86 based computer without puting
>>a 68000 on board, well however it needs to be done, I suppose they did it,
>>beacuse I just watched "Computer Chronicles" a while ago, and they had a
>>news bit about a new computer made by a CLONE maker that is billed as the
>>PC/MAC!  It was a laptop with a VGA 386 built in as well as a MAC.  The
>
>I don't remember the name of the company, but they DID put a 68000 in that
>box.


	The laptop you're both probably referring to is based on the Sparc
RISC chipset; I don't think there's any other processor in there to do the
emulation; it's all SW based.  It can run DOS, UNIX, and Mac stuff (via
a reverse-engineered clone of the Mac ROMs?).

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