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> Thanks to Matthias Haury and others with a summary of CellQuest running on
> a variety of Apple Mac's. It seems Mac PowerPC's run CellQuest OK if it's
> in System 7.1. I have a further question.
>
> I noticed that Apple now has a PowerPC which also has a 486DX DOS card
> built in. Supposedly these Mac's run PC applications much better than
> software emulation. My question is; can these Mac's, running DOS
> applications available from other sources, read BD CellQuest files? If so,
> I can use one machine (Mac PowerPC/DOS card) to analyze data from a BD
> CellQuest(Mac) cytometer with a variety of different software. Has anyone
> tried this?
>
I too am interested in anyones experience with running the Apple machines
with dual processors. We are thinking of getting a new machine in the lab
for data analysis. At present we have two Facscans and three HPs running
LysisII. However in the long term we are thinking of moving over to
CellQuest but as we also have a Facsmate and this is only supported on the
HPs we will have to keep these on at least one machine. The problem with
HPs is that the data analysis doesn't allow us to easily cut and paste
documents for publication etc. Exporting list mode data to another machine
would seem to be the answer. Most of my colleagues are keen to use Macs
for this. However I am a user of an Acorn (a what I hear most of you say?)
which also supports a PC coprocessor running either alone or multitasking
in a window with the Acorn RiscOS desktop. Thus I would prefer to run a
PC based analysis package. I have seen Don Healey (who is my only other
colleague currently using PCs) and he has recently downloaded WinMDI and
I am very impressed with my first look at the package.
So would one of the Macs with a PC coprocessor be a good compromise? If
it allowed everyone to run their favourite software but also to easily
translate data between formats then it sounds ideal. How well have Apple
integrated the two processors? Can they read each others partitions/
discs and translate common data (eg graphics) formats? Do they run
CellQuest ok? Is there a catch?
At present in the UK I have only seen the Mac Performa 630 PC compatible
this has a 68040 processor on the Mac side (+8Mb ram) and a 486DX2 on the
PC side (+4Mb ram). Would it have to be upgraded from this base
specification.
Sorry for the intense questioning but we only have limited funds at
present for this new computer and we need to make a good choice.
Mike Clark, mrc7@cam.ac.uk http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/MikeClark/
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