Re: [WinMac] MacWorld Expo Report - Something for everyone!

Bruce Johnson(johnson[at]Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU)
Fri, 23 Jul 1999 22:48:47 -0400

Daniel L. Schwartz wrote:
>

> EMULATORS, INC.:
>
> This is one product that blew me away: It's a MacOS 8
> emulator that runs
> on 95/98 and NT/x86. **This is the reverse of Connectix' VirtualPC.**

<screeeech> Whoah there Nelly! Slow down a leeetle, itsy bitsy teeny
weenie polka-dot moment there.

This software requires a ROM image from an appropriate Mac, supported
models are Mac IIci, Mac IIsi, Mac IIfx, Mac LC, Mac LC II. To do this
legally, you have to buy one of these boxes. At that, it's better than
their old system which physically required the ROM chips themselves
installed on a card.

It emulates a 68040 at best. They _claim_ to emulate a '200 mHz 68030'
on a 300 mHz PII running Win98 on their web page, whatever that means. I
would think that would be the equivalent of what, Virtual PC being
clocked as a 200 mHz 80386?? They have a bar chart that shows on a 300
mHz PII it's running a bit faster than a Quadra 610. Note the test is a
Microsoft Word 5.1 Word Count benchmark.

Anything that's PowerPC only...no dice. This, to be truthful, means just
about no modern software ackage will run on this.

Don't get me wrong, it's a nifty product, and a neat hack. I just have a
real hard time seeing where it'll be very useful.

I mean, the only use I ever hear for Virtual PC is so that people can
continue to use their Macs when management (or someone else) foists some
windowze only 'solution' on them. (Usually it's a 'solution without a
problem', too)

If you want a fast, capable Mac to run some program you've got, heck an
iMac is only $1200, refurbed ones are running $800 right now, used macs
much faster than Quadra 610's are a lot cheaper than that.

To be fair, this is the same thing I tell people wondering whether to
buy Virtual PC to do something...it's usually almost as cheap, and much
more efficient to get an older used PC.

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group


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