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From: jtreworgy@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IBM Mac emulator!
Message-ID: <1990Dec3.115109.36391@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Date: 3 Dec 90 16:51:09 GMT
References: <10569@helios.TAMU.EDU>
Organization: Wesleyan University Computing Center
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In article <10569@helios.TAMU.EDU>, cmw1725@tamsun.tamu.edu (Christopher Walton) writes:
> In reply to the guy who was inquiring if it was true that the IBM would soon
> have a MAC emulator like Amax II for the Amiga, well a lot of people said,
> 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
> price was very steep though, $10,000! No kidding!  They didn't show it
> running anything, so it might be really crappy, someone who knows please
> tell me if it was true, though I don't know why you would want one, when
> you can have an A3000, with a 386 bridgeboard, and Amax II, for LESS!

Sounds like what we've got here is a PC and a MAC in one box. I am certain that
such a beast has one of each type processor, and all the auxiliary hardware
associated with each (this seems to be confirmed by the price tag). But
regardless a 80x86 emulating a 68000 is a virtual impossibility at any
semblance of the original speed of the processor. Their architechtures are too
different.

> Christopher Walton
> 
> cmw1725@tamsun.tamu.edu
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