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From: cpmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matthew W Crowd)
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Subject: Re: NeXT emulation?
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.102600.27667@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
Date: 23 Apr 91 10:26:00 GMT
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In article <904@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM> dltaylor@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Dan Taylor) writes:
>In <1991Apr20.063819.8726@marlin.jcu.edu.au> cpmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matthew W Crowd) writes:
>
>>In case all you Amiga Freaks hadn't forgot, the only real reason why a 
>>computer has to emulate another is beacause of the lack of REAL software
>>for its own base.
>
>No, not really.  I had a professor who wanted an assignment done in
>dBase, maybe a name, but not REAL software IMHO.  I bought an A1000 and
>Transformer to do it.  Haven't touched dBase since.  It wasn't that

No wonder! Running the Transformer at about 0.5Mhz is not exactly the 
best platform to run/comment a peice of software on.

>there is NO database software, it's just that a particular piece was
>SPECIFIED.  Same thing for AMAX, I presume.  There's one particular title
>that someone needs to run.  Otherwise, the Amiga provides everything
>needed.                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^

If Amiga provides everything needed then why the HELL did Commodore
put IBM Bus Slots in the 2000?!?!?!

>By the way, since there are all of 8 or 9 commercial NeXT titles, perhaps
>that's why NeXT provides a translator for Sun 3 software?

I've never supported the NeXT and i never will. 

>Dan Taylor

matt.