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joyces@ACM.ORG (Shawn Joyce) writes:

>In article <1994Nov24.140751.15073@falch.no>, Jan Robert Johnsen <janr@falch.no> writes:
>>l.gudiksen@uws.edu.au (Lars Gudiksen ) writes:
>>>>>Last July I read in our Australian version of MacWorld (p19, lower right)
>>>>>that a company called "Utilities Unlimited International" was developing a
>>>>>486 emulator for the PowerMac that will support DOS, Windows, Unix, OS/2
>>>>>and Win NT. It also said that this emulator will give Pentium performance!

The fellows name is Jim Drew and you can often find his uhm 
overexaggerations in comp.sys.amiga.emulations.
>It was in mac week here in america too.  I believe the company name is 
>Utilities Unlimited International.  You can find adds for their products in 
>amiga magazines.  They make the "Emplant Board," a mac/pc/sega genesis emulator

Neither the PC or Sega emulation is out yet for the Amiga and he 
repeatedly makes excuses for them.

>board in an amiga with an 040 processor can supposedly run as well or slightly
>better than a quadra with the same processor.  He is supposed to have great 

That's what he and and some Amiga users say but when you actually run Mac 
applications you'll find that the math is slightly faster but the 
graphics speed is pathetic.

>If you read mac week from about a month later, mac the knife writes that
>the fellow stoped advertising his product and would not discuss it with
>anyone.  He speculated that the fellow's product was getting bought by
>another company (apple, ibm, or insignia).  No one has heard from him since
>on the program.  A real pity in my opinion.

It was a bunch of untrue hype.  The Houdini II card should be out by Feb 
'95 and unlike the Emplant, people have actually used one and reported 
that it works well.
>Shawn Joyce