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From: cjdb@sphinx.uchicago.edu (Charles Blair)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac SE running IBM
Message-ID: <2021@sphinx.uchicago.edu>
Date: Mon, 29-Jun-87 23:02:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: sphinx.2021
Posted: Mon Jun 29 23:02:59 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 1-Jul-87 04:31:03 EDT
References: <1548@megatest.UUCP> <1202@apple.UUCP>
Reply-To: cjdb@sphinx.UUCP (Charles Blair)
Organization: The University of Chicago
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In article <1202@apple.UUCP> dgold@apple.UUCP (David Goldsmith) writes:
>In article <1548@megatest.UUCP> msodos@megatest.UUCP (Marty Sodos) writes:
>>Has anyone seen a card yet for the SE's slot that makes it IBM compatible?
>>Anyone know who's working on thedm and when they're due out?
>
>Depending on what you mean by "compatible," there's
>
>1) The Apple PC drive card and PC Drive 5.25, which lets you read and write
>   5.25" MS-DOS disks.
>2) AST makes Mac86, an 8086 coprocessor card, to which you can also attach
>   a 5.25" drive.  It will run MS-DOS programs, although not concurrently
>   with Mac software (it takes over the Mac's memory).
>3) For the Mac II, AST's Mac286, an 80286 coprocessor, to which you can attach
>   a 5.25" drive.  Unlike Mac86, it has its own on-board memory, so you can
>   use it simultaneously with Mac software, with the MS-DOS screen displayed
>   in a window.  It emulates MDA, CGA, and Hercules, with color on a color
>   display.
>-- 
>David Goldsmith
>Apple Computer, Inc.


Question: What version of DOS do these cards run? Does MS-DOS in the
above really mean MS-DOS, or PC-DOS?  Is Apple or AST licensing DOS?
What are the limitations? How well-behaved does the PC program have to
be? I mean, I find it hard to believe that I could fire up Crosstalk
XVI and have it run on an SE or Mac II. Is the main usefulness of
these things to exchange files between PC's and Mac's?


I think these products lend an extra attractiveness to SE's and Mac
II's, but unless they have things on them besides the CPU (like the
UART, for example) I can't see them just running any PC software
without a hitch.















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