Many thanks to the following individuals:
lcollera@amgen.com (Lori Colleran)
worsham@aer.com (Robert D. Worsham)
jerry@soul.ampex.com (Jerry Stachowski)
joshia@com.msu.edu (Amaresh R. Joshi)
brian@cyrix.com (Brian Holgate)
barnum@fantasia.crd.ge.com (Maria A. Barnum)
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SUMMARY
call 1-800-sos-apple for more information
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Note: this is an update of a posting which appreared on
sun-managers in late August of this year......
There are two products that I'm aware of:
1) Liken from Andataco
2) MAE from Apple
Liken was on its own until Apple's recent release of
MAE (Macintosh Application Environment). As far as I
know there are no public domain Macintosh emulators.
We've had a copy of Liken for a couple of years, but
we haven't been please with how quickly it's evolved
(i.e. it's still System 6.0.7).
We've just recently purchased Apple's MAE (Macintosh
Application Enviroment), which is a 68040LC Macintosh
emulator which runs under UNIX (Solaris 2.3 and HP-UX).
A comparison of the products (my own :-) is provided
below:
Liken MAE
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Reasonable response SLOW on LX,
on SS2 (should be reasonable on SS5
fine on SS5 as well)
System 6.0.7 System 7.1 (Supports
(doesn't support all System 7 based
applications requiring applications [at least
System 7) all that I tried] :-)
Black & White Color
Limited network No network support
support (supposedly (in progress...
can use email - not - promised by 1st
yet tested) Qtr 1995)
Uses "Macintosh hard Uses/sees Unix file
drive" (must allocate system as hard
space on disk in user's drive (You are not
directory for this constrained by a
"hard drive" which is preallocated disk
actually a single file file, but can use
the size of the desired the entire unix
Mac hard drive. i.e. file system)
to obtain a 100 MB Mac --> applications
hard disk, you must can be
allocate/create a installed once
100 Mb hard disk file) and easily
--> applications can shared by all
be shared, but only users
through the use of --> can also set up
an "applications common font directory
hard disk" which for all users, which
must be "mounted" can save 5+ Mb per
within Liken user, useful for sites
with many users
Reads/writes Macintosh Reads/writes Macintosh
HD floppies (800K HD floppies (800K
floppies must be copied floppies must be copied
to 1.4M floppies) to 1.4M floppies)
Macintosh files can be Files can be read
imported into Liken from or saved to
only via floppy (or a Unix directory.
possibly via email, if These files can be
in fact that works), accessed from WABI
but not via Unix file or another Macintosh
system. via Cayman's GatorShare
or similar software.
Advanced Systems reviewed both products and favored
MAE (slightly) over Liken. Personally I think that
MAE is a much better product, especially once it's
preformance improves.
Note 1: no one has used Liken since mae was installed.....
Note 2: You can ftp a demo of mae from ftp.support.apple.com,
look in '/pub/mae/product-trial'.
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one solution is the "macintosh application environment"
from apple itself. i think right now it's currently
available for sun and hp. to get a trial cd call
1-800-769-2775 ext 7675. i haven't tried this myself,
i'm waiting for my sparc 5 to arrive :-).
also in the may 94 issue of advanced systems there are reviews
of two mac emulator products:
liken 2.0
andataco
10140 mesa rim rd.
san diego, ca 92121
800-334-9191, 619-453-9191
fax 619-4539294
inquire@andataco.com
equal 1.3
quorum software systems
4700 bohannon dr., #125
menlo park, ca 94025
415-323-3111
fax 415-323-3113
sales@quorum.com
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I believe Apple has an application tool box that will allow you to run Mac
software on various unix platforms.
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