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From: sulistio@FUTON.SFSU.EDU (Sulistio Muljadi)
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Subject: FYI: Macintosh software can be run on SPARC
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Date: 31 Mar 91 01:32:59 GMT
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For Your Information:
Magazine:  Computer Currents, March 26 - April 8, 1991 page 37

Startup Claims Mac Software Compatibility

A California startup says it is shipping software that will let users run
Macintosh software on any computer running the SPARC microprocessor.
RDI Computer Corp., a privately held company in San Diego, is shipping Companion
which Marketing Manager Steve McAllister said, "bridges the gap between the
Mac OS andtheSunOS."McAllister said Companion will allow its users to insert 
Macintosh disks into their computer and run the application unchanged at
about twice the speed of a Mac SE.  Companion, he said, will run on any 
SPARC-based computer.
[some stuff deleted]... RDI claims to emulate the ROM in software.
Companion can also run DOS based software at about the spped of an 80286.
McAllister says RDI has heard from several people at Apple but not from
their legal department.  He said he didn't expect to.  He pointed out that
Apple also owns the software house, Claris, and "this opens up a whole new
market for their software."

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Will they make this software for NeXT too?  If yes, NeXT will be a very great
computer to buy.  Can run DOS software and Mac software.
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