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- From: ostroff@Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Liken - Macintosh emulator
- Keywords: Macintosh Emulator UNIX 68000 SPARC
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.144509.12990@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 14:45:09 GMT
- References: <2527@cronos.metaphor.com>
- Sender: news@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Network News)
- Reply-To: ostroff@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Boyd Ostroff)
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- Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY
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- In article <2527@cronos.metaphor.com> arends@Yosemite.metaphor.com (Dale M Arends) writes:
- >I recently had the occasion to evaluate Liken, a Macintosh emulator that
- >runs on a SPARCstation.
-
- >Liken claims to emulate a monochrome Mac Classic.
-
- >Two biggies do not work! Neither MultiFinder nor System 7 are supported.
-
- >On a scale of 1 to 10, where 10 is the best, I would give Liken a clean,
- >solid 7.
-
- >Liken starts at about $695US for the single user license. Multi-user
- >licenses come in 10, 25, and 50 license packages and are significantly
- >more expensive.
-
- Phew! A good solid 7? A $695 Mac Classic emulator that doesn't run
- MultiFinder? Wanna buy a bridge? Seriously, why would anyone pay this
- kind of money for an emulator with a single-user license when they could
- buy the real thing for about the same amount? What am I missing here?
-
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