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In article <6606@dartvax.UUCP> merchant@dartvax.UUCP (Peter Merchant) writes:
>The cards have an 8086 (or 80286) processor.  I believe they convert the
>Macintosh modem and printer ports to COM1: or COM2:.  Thus, any program
>that specificially plays with the serial controller chip on the IBM PC, such
>as CrossTalk, will not run on the Mac.

To quote AST, the SE card (8086) contains just the 8086, BUT the 80286 card
duplicates everything on an AT motherboard (I assume their AT) (and b4 some
wag cuts in, it does NOT include the slots).  To use the card you run an
application (which is said to be switcher compatable) on your mac.  This
application is said to do all the redirection etc.

>I think that the main usefulness is to get them through the doors of companies
>that already have an MS-DOS standard.  Also, I suppose, it would allow you
>to use various PC programs as well as Macintosh programs.  For example, I
>have yet to see an equivalent of MathCAD for the Macintosh (let me know if you
>know of one), so I can use MathCAD and take information from there and paste
>it into WriteNow or Word or whatever turns me on.
>
Didnt John Dvorak say this already?


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