folta@tove.cs.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) (11/08/90)
From the November 7 Wall Street Journal: ... Research, Development & Innovations, Inc. of San Diego said it plans to display at the Comdex computer show next week a 8.5-pound battery-powered laptop that uses the SPARC chip, the heart of Sun's popular workstations. The machines will run Sun, IBM, and Apple [Macintosh] software unaltered, said RDI president Rick Schrameck. : : BriteLite is especially unique in that it apparently will be the first computer ever to contain software that allows it to mimic, or "emulate," the Apple's Macintosh machines. An Apple spokeswoman said no non-Apple computer on the market runs Macintosh software, but she added that Apple wasn't familiar with the new machine. "The only way they could do that is in a jerry-rigged manner," said the spokeswoman. "We cannot, nor can our third-partyvendors, verify if this is a usable system for our customers." The BriteLite will "absolutely run all Macintosh software" faster than does the Macintosh SE, said Mr. Schrameck, and will run MS-DOS software at the same speed as a PC using Intel's 80286 microprocessor. : : ... The company said it will begin shipping the machines,which will list for between $7,000 and $12,000, in December. ... -- Wayne Folta (folta@cs.umd.edu 128.8.128.8)