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From: greg@sif.claremont.edu (Tigger)
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Subject: Re: FYI: Macintosh software can be run on SPARC
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Date: 13 Apr 91 01:08:26 GMT
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In article <1991Apr10.004440.4554@ulowell.ulowell.edu>, koverber@hal.ulowell.edu (Kurt Overberg) writes:
> 
> 	If there exists an emulator for the Amiga, and the Sparc,
>   	there will almost definately be one for the Next.

This reminds me of an ad that NeXT ran in a number of publications a while
back, so I dug around in my stack of MacWEEKs and found it.  The add says:

  "Of course, the 040 chip was designed to be perfectly compatible with
   all those computers that have been built around other chips in the
   68000 family.  So it will support the enormous base of 68000 software
   that currently runs on Macintosh and UNIX platforms."

I showed this to a NeXT rep, whose eyes bugged out of his head when he saw
it.  Then he said, "Well, we aren't doing it."  Take that to mean what you
will.

With the recent NuTek announcement, I certainly wouldn't be surprised to
see a Nubus board with the NuTek chips show up for the Cube.  You could
even have high end boards with their own CPU, memory, I/O ports, etc, and
low end boards sharing those on the Cube's motherboard.  Any engineers out
there familiar with board design interested in starting a company?  :-)

|   Greg Orman                                 greg@pomona.claremont.edu   |
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