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Re: Quix's Daydream [was Re: Competition for ARDI???]
"Jered Floyd - jered@mit.edu" <jered@MIT.EDU> wrote,
> It is also interesting to note that Quix has a similar product called
> 'Daydream' that provides Mac emulation on black NeXTs. It consists of a
> small (2" x 3") box which contains Apple ROMs, software, and Apple
> System 7.1.
>
> While these systems probably outperform Executor and are much more stable,
> they are both on rare platforms that don't have the challenge that the
> x86 presents, and are very Apple dependent. For those reasons, I doubt
> that Quix will be a competitor in the x86 market.
>
> --Jered
> jered@mit.edu
It's also worth noting that the price of the 'Daydream' was around $800
for NeXTs the last time I looked, and required rebooting the machine into
"Macintosh" mode. Ie, it's real expensive and isn't at all integrated
-- It just lets you run a different OS on your hardware (and in my
opinion, you'd be better off just buying a new computer).
-Mike
mkienenb@arsc.edu