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- From: drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David Gutierrez)
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- Subject: Re: Soft_PC. How compatible is it?
- Message-ID: <8138@lib.tmc.edu>
- Date: 15 Dec 1992 20:49:13 GMT
- References: <1992Dec14.002308.4927@massey.ac.nz> <29600@castle.ed.ac.uk>
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- In article <29600@castle.ed.ac.uk> tjc@castle.ed.ac.uk (A J Cunningham) writes:
- >T.Stewart@massey.ac.nz (T.M. Stewart) writes:
- >>Soft-PC was mentioned a number of times. Although it's likely to be slow,
- >>just how compatible is it?
- >
- >100%.
- >
- >>Do any users of Soft-PC have any comments?
- >
- >OK, I'm not a user I work for Insignia. But the emulation is solid.
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- Not true. An Apple systems engineer said that the low-level disk editing
- routine in Norton Utilities (the PC version) became confused when it saw raw
- Macintosh disks.
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- So make that 99.9999%.
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- David Gutierrez
- drg@biomath.mda.uth.tmc.edu
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- "Only fools are positive." - Moe Howard
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