Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!alt From: alt@ecsvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm Subject: Re: Z-80, CP/M Emulator for Macintosh? Message-ID: <1967@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Feb-84 10:22:14 EST Article-I.D.: ecsvax.1967 Posted: Wed Feb 8 10:22:14 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 06:26:34 EST References: sri-arpa.16323 Lines: 14 Allow me to quote from the Feb. '84 issue of BYTE. "However,one class of add-on card will not work using this scheme: (MacIntosh's virtual slots) processor cards like the Microsoft Softcard, which allow a computer to run another processor's software. Such cards require full access to the data and address lines and will not work via a serial "virtual slot." As a result, despite some rumors to the contrary, the MacIntosh will never use IBM PC- or MS-DOS-based software." pg.43 Unless I'm reading this incorrectly I don't believe that a hardware solution to CP/M emulation is in the offering. In my humble opinion I think Apple really blew it concerning the expansion slots. ---Larry