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Date: Sun 28-Aug-1991 02:26:05 From: crum@alicudi.usc.edu (Gary L. Crum) Subject: Macintosh emulator by Abacus I haven't seen a discussion of the Abacus Mac emulator for NeXT here in comp.sys.next.misc. Please share details, if you have any, like perhaps: 1. What are some Macintosh applications that run on NeXTs with the Abacus Mac emulator? 2. What are some that do not run? 3. Is Abacus trying to support these somewhat advanced Mac emulation features? 3a. printing from Macintosh applications to any of (1) NeXT printers, (2) LaserWriters connected to NeXT by serial ports, (3) other Macintosh-compatible printers connected to NeXT by serial ports, and (4) Macintosh compatible printers accessible using the AppleTalk Printer Access Protocol? 3b. AppleTalk support? NBP? PAP? AFP? ADSP? MacIP? 3c. Filesystem translation/sharing, so that Macintosh applications running on NeXTs can read and write to and from NeXT 4.3BSD filesystems? 3d. Cut-and-paste between NeXTstep and Macintosh applications? 4. What is the expected price and availability? 5. Does the collection of Macintosh windows reside in a single NeXTstep window or are Macintosh windows mapped individually into NeXTstep windows? 6. Is color supported, and can Macintosh windows span multiple screens on NeXTdimension-equipped NeXTs as NeXTstep windows can? You know, the obvious questions, on the techincal side moreso than the legal and marketing side except for cost and shipping information. Here's an excerpt from a NeXTweek posting to comp.sys.next.announce that referenced the Mac emulator for NeXT by Abacus. If can't be at the UNIX Open conference where it will be demonstrated, so if you can, please try to find out the answers to questions like these. >Date: Thu, 22 Aug 91 11:18:48 MDT >From: iclone!ctm@unmvax.cs.unm.edu At UNIX Open, an exhibition put on by the same people who put on COMDEX, in San Jose, from September 4th through 6th, the company I work for, Abacus Research and Development, Inc., will be demoing a not-quite beta version of a Mac Emulator we wrote. We will be showing it running big ticket applications like Microsoft Word 4.00D and Microsoft Excel 2.2a. We're too small to have salespeople so you can talk to the people who put it together. This is relevant to NeXT users because the first machine we will support is the NeXT. Our demo will be running on a NeXT running NeXTStep and perhaps on a Sun3/60 running X as well. Clifford T. Matthews unmvax.cs.unm.edu!iclone!ctm Abacus Research & Development, Inc.
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