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From: rpm@sgi1.wag.caltech.edu (Richard P. Muller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: The Fate of the Macintosh
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.162359.1419@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 22 Mar 91 16:23:59 GMT
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In-Reply-To: medlin@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu (Roger Medlin)

In article <1991Mar22.145326.27445@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu>,
medlin@rucs2 (Roger Medlin) writes:
[...very interesting suggestion about a Mac software clone to run on
NeXT platform...]
>Comments ?

Sure, a couple.
	I believe that someone is already working on a SoftPC-type
clone of Mac Roms for the NeXT. Should be out RSN.
	Software clones are in general terribly slow. I've heard that
SoftPC only runs at about IBM XT speed (i.e. awful), even though the
NeXT is a tremendous platform (as you mentioned, 15 MIPS). If you want
good performance on Macintosh software, you best bet for the money
will always be a Macintosh, until the fabled clean-room hardware
clones of the Mac ROMs materialize (also RSN), and maybe even then.