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Article #4432Re: virtual preservation (of Apple IIs)
From: gr... Greg Cronau1000000
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 1990 06:21
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.....) *-----------------------------------------------------------------------------* * Q: How many surrealists does it | gr...@cimage.com * * take to change a lightbulb? | * * A: Three: One to hold the giraff, | Are you kidding? My employer would * * and one to fill the bathtub | have to be *nuts* to have these * * with multi-color power tools. | opinions. (P.s. I'm self-employed) * *-----------------------------------------------------------------------------* * And Remember: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistingusable * * from a rigged demo." - With apologies to A. Clark * *-----------------------------------------------------------------------------*
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!sunic!hagbard!eru!bloom-beacon!snorkelwacker!usc!samsung!umich!dgsi!gregc 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 References: <6709@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <JH06o2w162w@vector0> Reply-To: gregc@dgsi.UUCP (Greg Cronau/1000000) Organization: Cimage Corp, Ann Arbor, MI Lines: 31 Posted: Fri Sep 14 07:21:56 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit