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Re: virtual preservation (of Apple IIs)

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From: gr... Greg Cronau1000000
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 1990 06:21
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In article <JH06o2w162w@vector0> jon@vector0 (A Product of Society) writes:
>unk...@ucscb.ucsc.edu (The Unknown User) writes:
>
>> 	There's already a UNIX emulator of the Apple II. Cool huh?
>
>    Uh..  There's a wanna-be Unix system (not emulator) for the Apple II.
>And it leaves some to be desired -- it was a good try, though.
>(Written in compiled Basic w/ some Asm modem routines, etc)
>
>(I set it up once.  Pretty slow, and is the exact opposite of Prodos,
>so how *could* it work..)
>
>Jon                           ..?$!..ames!pacbell!sactoh0!vector0!jon
>                              Internet: vector0!j...@sactoh0.SAC.CA.US

Uh, I think you got that backward. I believe that the original poster meant
that there is a program that runs under UNIX that emulates an Apple ][. Not
a UNIX that runs on an Apple. (*That* would be a cute trick: "See. all you
need is this little extra hardware card. What's on it? Well, just a 68020,
a couple meg of ram.....)

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From: gr...@cimage.com (Greg Cronau/1000000)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: virtual preservation (of Apple IIs)
Message-ID: <1990Sep14.062156.6226@cimage.com>
Date: 14 Sep 90 06:21:56 GMT
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