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This is what Boot Camp looked like in the 1980s
« on: July 30, 2015, 10:23:09 PM »
Cult of Mac Article about Amiga.

http://www.cultofmac.com/383728/this-is-what-boot-camp-looked-like-in-the-1980s/

Sample Copy from the Article.

"Worth noting that this is not “software emulation” like how you might run Mini vMac on a modern computer. This setup literally connects two Apple Macintosh ROM chips (from a Mac Plus, in this instance) to the Amiga’s floppy drive, and via some unholy alliance of A-Max controller software + Apple ROM code + the Motorola 68000 CPU in the Amiga (the same chip that powered all the early Macs), this is a “hardware” emulation system. Interestingly, the Mac boot disk I have is too old to be 32-bit compatible, so while it “sees” the full 9 megs of RAM in the Amiga, it can only access 512k of it."

Click on link above to read full article.