Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!west!runcible.West.Sun.COM!lwake From: lwake@runcible.West.Sun.COM (Larry Wake) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Mac emulation Message-ID: <1387@west.West.Sun.COM> Date: 5 Feb 91 02:09:11 GMT References: <1991Jan29.013029.6804@evax.arl.utexas.edu> <1991Jan31.050104.6291@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> <1991Feb4.211511.1256@csn.org> Sender: news@west.West.Sun.COM Organization: Sun Microsystems, San Diego, CA Lines: 26 In article <1991Feb4.211511.1256@csn.org> fozzard@alumni.colorado.edu (Richard Fozzard) writes: >Of course, who would buy a Sun, then pay $895 more to run a non-multifinder >1 MB Plus? (Though you can run multiple copies of it, they are totally >separate machines; different file systems, no copy/paste, etc.) Real estate. I have a Sparc 1+ on my desk. I want to run PC programs. I want to run Mac programs. I don't want to put two more monitors, keyboards and mice on my desk, let alone look for someplace to stash the CPUs, deal with the cabling, buy more hard disk, *power* the whole mishmosh, physically move from one to the other (including all my accessories, such as paperwork, soda, CD player) whenever I switch applications... Since I do UNIX by choice, and Mac and PC only by necessity, I don't need the most whizzo PC or Mac on the block, just something to run that one application I need that hasn't been ported to SPARC yet. (SimCity, for example :-) Cheers from the office that brought you RDI (they cut up one of our demo room IPCs to make their prototype)... -- Larry Wake, Sun Microsystems (larry.wake@west.sun.com) "The first computers were big clumsy machines that used vacuum tubes. By today's standards, they were extremely primitive. For example, they believed the sun was carried across the sky on the back of a giant turtle." -- D. Barry