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From: dltaylor@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Dan Taylor)
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Subject: Re: NeXT emulation?
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Date: 24 Apr 91 19:43:45 GMT
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In <1991Apr23.102600.27667@marlin.jcu.edu.au> cpmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matthew W Crowd) writes:

>In article <904@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM> dltaylor@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Dan Taylor) writes:

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

I'd run dBase, elsewhere, before.  Both PC's and fast CP/M-80s.  I just don't
like the language.  The point was that since I HAD to use dBase, I might
as well emulate the PC, as buy one, since the PC didn't do anything else
I needed, or wanted.

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

Like I said, sometimes there's that one or two things you can't avoid.
F'rinstance, I upgraded to an A2500/30, a few months back.  I needed a
PAL/EPROM/FPLA/MicroCPU programming device.  The nicest inexpensive one
I could find used an XT card as a host.  I still do the software development
on the Amiga side, but I burn the EPROMs on the A8088 side.  I could
have bought a programmer that attached by serial port, and not needed the
XT, but the A8088 solution was cheaper.  Also, Transformer can't emulate
all the physical hardware interfaces, and you're right, it's slow.  So,
the BridgeBoard solution works nicely when you HAVE to have a PC.

If the only software a person ever wants to run is PC, or Mac, then they
should buy THAT computer, not an Amiga.  If there's only an occasional
need, why not emulate, or coprocess, and do it well?

Dan Taylor