I recollect that the Amiga had some gizmo--I think it was called "MagicSack" or something like that--that let it run Macintosh programs, sort of. It never really caught on, at least as an alternative to real Macs. And I think something similar was available for DOS. This was all several years back, before the Amiga faded out.
Amiga users and former Amiga users can probably tell us more.
--Tim May
The Amiga 2000 had two sets of slots - one for amiga-specific cards, and one for PC cards. Some of these slots lined up, and you could slip in a 'Bridgeboard' which carried an Intel processor. It could access the PC slots, the amiga IO, and had it's own disk partitions. There were mechanisms for the two processors to exchange data as well. I *think* there was a similar MAC product as well, or at least a board which could carry MAC ROMs, and used the Amiga 68000 processor. So the answer is: yes, the Amiga could do that. It also had long filenames, thousands of colors, true preemptive multitasking, stereo sound, a DSP coprocessor,and many other neat features years before they were available on other consumer systems, as well as display quality and features still unavailable on any system even near its pricepoint. But - Commodore's marketing department couldn't sell ice in the Sahara. I'll stop now, or I'll start mourning for TOPS-20 as well... Peter Trei Senior Software Engineer Purveyor Development Team Process Software Corporation http://www.process.com trei@process.com