donch@teklabs.UUCP (Don Chitwood) (04/30/86)
It's budget time, and once again management keeps stomping on the Mac by saying '..it's not IBM compatible.' Well...., crap. Who out in net.land has personal experience with systems or techniques that allow Mac software to be used on IBMs and vice versa? I've seen ads for MacCharley (sp?) but have never seen it reviewed. Comments? Don Chitwood Tektronix, Inc.
merchant@dartvax.UUCP (Peter Merchant) (05/09/86)
> It's budget time, and once again management keeps stomping on the > Mac by saying '..it's not IBM compatible.' > > Well...., crap. Who out in net.land has personal experience with > systems or techniques that allow Mac software to be used on IBMs > and vice versa? I've seen ads for MacCharley (sp?) but have never > seen it reviewed. > > Comments? > > Don Chitwood > Tektronix, Inc. I always enjoy that. The best weapon I've found against "management" is to get statistics on Mac use vs. PC use. Worked here at the Merchant Marine Academy, and this is The Government. (I'm from the government, I'm here to help you...) Anywway, though, having to deal with both machines, I looked into MacCharlie and played with it for a bit and was relatively impressed. The PC end is a typical PC (nothing tricky, garden variety 8088) and it pretends it has a monochrome monitor. Unfortunately, this slices out a number of "scientific" applications that want a colour monitor. You can cut and paste between your Macintosh and your PC, but beware the slowness of going from Mac to PC. It also has a way of doing file transfer. For those people who use both machines alot, it's pretty good. For avid PC users, they will probably grumble about the PC part, especially the monochrome monitor. Dayna has mentioned that they will be supporting Appletalked printers (such as the LaserWriter) and they also plan to have an expansion box for accepting your favourite cards (which could solve the monitor problem). I'm waiting to see what happens before I have this place buy me one. -- "Don't waste my time." Peter Merchant