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In article <D03zI4.52@dorsai.org>, einstein@news.dorsai.org (Barry
Einstein) wrote:

> Shawn Joyce (joyces@ACM.ORG) wrote:
> : 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!
> 
> <stuff deleted>
> 
> Jim Drew has DEFINITELY NOT been bought out by Apple and is still 
> producing the Emplant Mac Emulation for the Amiga.
> 
> I've been using it since it came out and although it's had a lot of 
> growing pains, I find it a stable product and reasonably fast.
> 
> He's prematurely (at best) announced a 486/586 emulation for the Emplant 
> and Mac/PowerPC and some rather anxious "reporters" desperate for good 
> copy jumped to print it's imminent release.
> 
> The 486/586 Emplant emulation is still unreleased although it is 
> supposedly almost ready and is to be shown at a computer show in England.
> 
> There has been no further news of the Mac/PowerPC 486/586 product.


I have to say, that article in MacWeek turned out to be the most utter
collection of garbage I've seen in quite a while.  This guy may be still
working on his emulator, and I don't fault him for any misrepresentation,
but MacWeek claimed that this thing would be out by "late summer" (1994)
and would run os/2, windows, windows NT, dos, and unix.  Also, it would
perform on an 8100 faster than available Pentiums.  Let me get this
straight: he's going to run something in emulation (on a chip that by
official specmarks is only slightly ahead of a pentium) faster than a
pentium?  Only way this is conceivable is if the system calls are all
native; is he going to port each of the above operating systems?  Is he
then going to read Paradise Lost, Moby Dick, and David Copperfield in one
day and still refurbish his dining room that evening?

Not bloody likely.