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1 total messages Started by Bill Hart Mon, 01 Jun 1992 07:52
Macintosh emulators for sun (Quorum)
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Author: Bill Hart
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1992 07:52
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Hi,
	I'm in the process of evaluating macintosh emulators for suns (mainly to
run microsoft word). I've tried the Liken emulator and it seems to work ok 
except for a couple of things I didn't like:
	a) Uses version 6.0.7 software and in particular the print drivers (which
confuses the laser printers since every other mac is system 7).
	b) probably more importantly it is very difficult to get anything into or
out of the Mac file system, as it is just a data file, (I only have an evaluation
copy with limited documentation, so it is a bit hard to tell if there is a way around
this), so it appears the only way to get stuff into it is via a floppy or cdrom drive,
which serverly limits it's usefulness as a network utility (ideally I'd like
compatibility with a cap60 type file system).

Speed seems to be ok (it still seems really silly to have a $20K computer emulating
a $2k machine slowly).

I recently read about Quorum's Equal emulator which sounds as though it might be
more what I want, does anyone out there know where to get it, or even better has
anyone tried it out ?

Thanks

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Bill Hart	CSIRO Division of Oceanography		hart@ocean.ml.csiro.au
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