Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!dalcs!aucs!peter
From: peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Running MS-DOS on Macs (Please, no flames)
Message-ID: <871@aucs.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 88 12:25:49 GMT
References: <111@bodo.UUCP>
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Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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in article <111@bodo.UUCP>, talley@bodo.UUCP (James T. Talley) says:
> 
> I am someone who wants the Mac II that may soon
> arrive on my desk, but has to provide support for an existing base of
> MS-DOS software, so the ability to run OS/2 (OS|2?) is not that
> important right now.  Please send your responses by e-mail and I will
> summarize to the net if there is sufficient interest.
> 
> James Talley
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Please summarize or e-mail your results. I'm in exactly the same
situation as you. What I've learned so far is that the Mac 286
by AST is the only thing out there as far as hardware is concerned.
It is expensive in Canada: $2495 list for two boards! We can buy a
whole AT clone with a hard disk for that price. I've seen the Mac286
listed for around $1050 US, that's around $1400 Canadian, so as
usual our Canadian dealers are overpricing a product.
I've heard that most software runs okay, except that screen update
is slower that one would perhaps like. I read this in a review.