Re: CellQuest and PowerPC/DOS

Matthias Haury (mhaury@pasteur.fr)
Sun, 21 May 1995 11:09:43 +0100

Hank Pletcher (pletcher@mscf.med.upenn.edu) asked:
>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 have not had the chance yet to try the PowerPC + 486DX Card, but from
what I understand (Apple dealers that I asked about..) there should be no
problem reading Listmode Files from the Mac Partition with DOS or Windows
Programs... as with this machines you can apparently even switch between
the two processors without rebooting. Anyway, there is no problem
transfering files from the Mac to an IBM compatible machine (via net,
optical, floppies etc...) DosMounter and PC/Exchange allow you to read any
IBM compatible media in the Mac, so you can just save your listmode files
on a IBM formatted disk (either HD partition, floppy, magneto-optical
etc...).

Hope that helps...

Matthias

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