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From: etxtomp@eos.ericsson.se (Tommy Petersson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IBM Mac emulator!
Message-ID: <1990Dec4.113153.7684@ericsson.se>
Date: 4 Dec 90 11:31:53 GMT
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In article <1990Dec3.115109.36391@eagle.wesleyan.edu> jtreworgy@eagle.wesleyan.edu writes:
-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
--- 
-James A. Treworgy    -- No quote here for insurance reasons --
-jtreworgy@eagle.wesleyan.edu         jtreworgy%eagle@WESLEYAN.BITNET

It could also be the announced BriteLite Portable Computer, with a SPARC
processor and 8086/68000 emulation in software. It's not due out soon,
seems more like they are testing the market to see if there is enough
interest for it to be interesting to produce (at that steep price).

Tommy Petersson