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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Anything like SOFTMAC available?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.052731.6887@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <93025.133917DGRAHAM@HARPERVM.BITNET> <enk2.91.728024888@po.cwru.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 05:27:31 GMT
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- In article <enk2.91.728024888@po.cwru.edu> enk2@po.cwru.edu (Erik Kovach) writes:
- >>Is there anything available for OS/2 that will do MacIntosh emulation. Does
- >>anyone know if this is even possible. And if not, at least a utility to read
- >>in MacIntosh files. I tried the macutils found on hobbes, but that seemed to
- >>be for reading Mac files into Unix, and not OS/2. Thanks for any info.
- >I REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY doubt that there is a Macintosh emulator
- >for two reasons: hardware and the Macintosh copyrights that they have been,
- >well, anal about. Macintosh-formatted disks, I am pretty sure, cannot be
- >read by PC's (although if you have a Mac, PC disks can be read/altered, so
- >use a Mac to convert a file to FAT file system and THEN use the Macutils
- >program).
-
- The company that makes Mac-in-DOS (or is it Mac-in-PC?), the utility
- that reads Macintosh diskettes on a PC, apparently has an OS/2 version
- as well. I'm afraid I don't have more details though. Please let us
- all know what you find out.
-
- As for Macintosh programs running on OS/2, there have been persistent
- rumors to that effect (starting a long time ago in Byte, most
- prominently). Due to the Apple/IBM alliance, most observers expect
- this to occur in one form or another at some point in the future.
-
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