grant@philtis.UUCP (Joe Grant) (02/03/89)
Hi, I recently took delivery of a Mac-II and have been toying with the idea of bringing an MS-DOS environment up on it. I believe there are both software and hardware solutions available, however the only software solution that I have been able to find is an IBM-XT emulation. As the packages that I hope to run require a minimum of an AT compatible I've been looking into the Mac286 board from AST Research INC. What I hope you people can help me with is this. Do any of you have experience with the Mac286 or a similar hardware solution, if so could you let me know what you think of the product. If anyone knows of a software AT emulation could they forward the product name and their impressions of it to me. Thanks, Joe -- Joe Grant, Telex : 35000 phtc nl/nlmtfarr Philips B.V., Building HKJ-p825 Telefax : (31.40.7)33432 P.O. Box 218, Eindhoven, E-mail : uucp: ...uunet!mcvax!philtis!grant The Netherlands, Telephone : (31.40.7)34382
sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington) (02/14/89)
in article <585@philtis.UUCP>, grant@philtis.UUCP (Joe Grant) says: > Posted: Fri Feb 3 06:10:34 1989 > > Hi, > I recently took delivery of a Mac-II and have been toying with > the idea of bringing an MS-DOS environment up on it. I believe there > are both software and hardware solutions available, however the only > software solution that I have been able to find is an IBM-XT emulation. > As the packages that I hope to run require a minimum of an AT compatible > I've been looking into the Mac286 board from AST Research INC. > > What I hope you people can help me with is this. Do any of you have > experience with the Mac286 or a similar hardware solution, if so could > you let me know what you think of the product. If anyone knows of a > software AT emulation could they forward the product name and their > impressions of it to me. > I've been using the Mac286 board since August and am generally quite pleased. I haven't found anything that won't run (I've tested most of the big PC DBMS's and a few other application programs). It has good emulation of both a monochrome screen and CGA. It provides a mouse driver so that the Mac mouse can emulate a Microsoft mouse (very nice...) It does take up two NuBus slots and require 5 meg RAM before it will run well under multifinder. Just recently a competitor was released that supposedly takes less RAM under multifinder and only uses one slot. How good it is I haven't any idea. Perhaps someone has taken the plunge... However, Mac286 seems to be a solid product. It does the job very nicely. Jan Harrington, sysop Scholastech Telecommunications husc6!stech!sysop or allegra!stech!sysop ************************************************************************* Miscellaneous profundidity: "No matter where you go, there you are..." Buckaroo Banzai *************************************************************************