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Re: LC Mac Apple IIe card

On 21/10/04 2:17 am, in article F6Edd.36242$qU.4874@clgrps13, "Wayne
Stewart" <waynes@telus.dotnet> wrote:

> Simon Williams wrote:
>> I don't have one, but I was wondering... does the "virtual" Apple IIe
>> run in Mac OS or does it taker over the whole machine?
>> I'm running an LC475 web server and thought it might be feasible to use
>> the IIe card to run AppleSoft programs instead of cgi... probably not
>> the ideal solution, but it might be fun to try.
> 
> The IIe card takes over the Macs display and keyboard but the Mac is
> still running in the background. Some time back I had a Color Classic
> running as a localtalk server and was able to log in and access the
> hard drive while the IIe card was running.
> 
> If your LC475 isn't using the LC PDS slot for eternet then there's
> a good chance you can use a IIe card at the same time.

But you can't make it run a CGI script in AppleSoft triggered from the Mac
side, surely?

Ruchard
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