[comp.sys.mac] Orange micro 286 board questions

mfi@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Mark Interrante) (08/28/89)

My wife needs to run a PC program called SAS.  It is a large (12 disk) stats.
program that runs on all AT clones.  I am considering buying the 286
board for the macII to allow her to run the program.  Does anyone know
if the current version (2.0) is any better than the original?  What
drawbacks are there to using this board.  The reason that I am not
considering softPC is that SAS runs slow enough on a 286!


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wvanbeek@tippy.uucp (08/28/89)

Stop, Halt, Don't do anything.

Unless your wife is doing some pretty mundane low-level work with SAS, spend
the money and buy her a 286 to use for SAS alone.  I know that you 
should be able to buy one for $1400 including monitor, keyboard, and 30
MB harddrive.  Please don't try and make the MAC a PC.  It would be such a shame.