rlong@phonon.eng.ohio-state.edu (Prof. Ronald Long) (02/03/90)
I have SoftPC on my IIcx and love it. It does what I want to do and the speed is good enough. But I know of another party (not able to get on net) who finds it too slow for his purpose. What is the latest on hardware boards for the Mac II line? Who makes pc plug in boards, what are the prices, and how well do they work? Is the system as seamless as SoftPC? Thanks. -=- Ronald K. Long, Ph.D. Ohio State Univ EE Dept., 2015 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43210 rlong@phonon.eng.ohio-state.edu
kyt@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu (Kok Yong Tan) (02/04/90)
In article <4100@quanta.eng.ohio-state.edu> rlong@phonon.eng.ohio-state.edu (Prof. Ronald Long) writes: >What is the latest on hardware boards for the Mac II line? >Who makes pc plug in boards, what are the prices, and how >well do they work? Is the system as seamless as SoftPC? There is one board for the Mac II line named Mac286 made by Orange Micro. It sells for $1099 in the discount mail order houses. It's supposed to be a two board affair (I think it takes up two NuBus slots). I don't have one so I can't comment on it. However, the blurbs claim that it's approximately 6 times faster than "software-based solutions" (I assume they mean SoftPC) and it's compatible with 90% of AT software and has a variety of video output formats such as CGA, etc. =============================================================================== Kok-Yong Tan can be contacted via: | "Oscularis fundamentum!" InterNet: kyt@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu | - Annoyed Latin scholar CompuServe: 75046,256 | ===============================================================================