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From: dbplass@abp.lcs.mit.edu (David Plass)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: mac emulation
Summary: mac emulator in software for Unix?
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Date: 3 Mar 90 19:07:30 GMT
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Whoa!  I just read a posting of a news release on comp.newprod that
announced a product for X/Unix computers that allow them to emulate
a Macintosh in software.  They did this by implementing the Toolbox ROMs in
software, and have included just about every Toolbox trap as documented in IM.

The problem I have with this is: if Abacus (the company who announced the product)
can "copy" the Mac Toolkit in this way, why aren't there any Mac "clones?"
Did Apple give premission to Abacus to copy the Toolbox ROMs? 

BTW, the news release claimed 2-3x better performance on a Sun 3/60 than a MacPlus.
Could this be the beginning of a mac clone market?

-- David Plass

Disclaimer: Don't kill the messenger.