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- From: miracle@sctc.com (Barry Miracle)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: MAC emulators on unix
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.230241.19408@sctc.com>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 23:02:41 GMT
- References: <1992Dec16.162204.13847@mcs.kent.edu> <1gnp5hINNmqd@news.cerf.net>
- Organization: SCTC
- Lines: 48
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- bbal@nic.cerf.net (Brian Balthazor) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Dec16.162204.13847@mcs.kent.edu> sscott@mcs.kent.edu (Stephen Scott) writes:
- >>Has anyone heard anything about LIKEN - this claims to be a macintosh
- >>emulation environment for unix systems. I found it in a SUN World ad
- >>by a company called Andataco. However, the "fine print" at the bottom
- >>of the page says - "Liken is a trademark of Xcelerated Systems Inc."
- >>So I assume that Andataco is the marketing firm.
- >>
- >>- Has anyone used this and have any comments?
- >>
- >>- Even at the educational price I may be better off buying another Mac
- >> if performance & integration is not outstanding.
- >>
- >>- Are there any other similar products on the market?
-
- >I have used LIKEN from Xcelerated Systems of San Diego, California. The
- >product requires a Sparc2 minimally to run on (preferably a 10) if
- >you want to be at all productive.
-
- >I personally have run several application on Liken and found
- >discrepancies from native Mac operation. Quicen produced strange
- >results, FrameMaker did not run on the first version but will now
- >run on the current release, however, it's bombed out several times
- >when working with small documents. Finale (musical application) will not
- >run at all, the list goes on.
-
- >On the better side, many people have used Liken to their satisfaction
- >at several companies I'v contracted for. Let's face it, the concept is
- >sound - Mac software is much less expensive than it's Sun counterpart.
- >But you do lose some performance.
-
- >Determine what you're trying to accomplish. You can buy Mac powerbook
- >100's at Price Club for $700. A liken license is similarly priced for
- >single user.
-
- >Also, liken does not support color, nor does it currently run System 7.0
-
-
- I found Liken limited and buggy. I get errors that cause Liken to
- "RESTART" frequently. It has no networking support, so that although
- you can run it on your sparc, you can not network it to use that node
- as a file server for instance.
-
- I found it slow, over priced and buggy.
-
- Barry Miracle
- miracle@sctc.com
-