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Re: IIe emulation card ?'s.
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 21:16:48 +0100, gospodin@clubi.ie (Vincent Quinn)
wrote:
>In article <labelas-2807991434290001@host-209-214-27-50.psl.bellsouth.net>,
>labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth) wrote:
>>In article <B3C3D1F096684D921@viper.clubi.ie>, gospodin@clubi.ie (Vincent
>>Quinn) wrote:
>>> Now a quibble: surely it's wrong to describe this card as an 'emulator'? It
>>> puts an (almost) real IIe inside your LC-PDS series Mac. That isn't
>>> 'emulation'?
>>Yes, but several aspects of the IIe are emulated by the mac's hardware.
>>(the different slots, for instance, are mapped to the mac equivalent)
>Uh? Slots in a Mac???
He means that this "emulator" can fool your fake //e into thinking
that it has a clock card installed (which is actually the Mac's
clock), or it could make your fake //e think it has an Appletalk card
installed (which is actually the Mac's Appletalk system), etc.