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Doc, I wouldn't call that an "emulator." That was a full Intel processor computer card installed in the Mac 6100

I didn't mean emulator the way SoftPC was an emulator. Maybe DOS/Win16 compatible would have been a better term. I know the Cyrix chip in the case had a full-fledged Intel x86 instruction set. But it was NOT an Intel chip. The Cyrix chips were the cheapest and the slowest of the major Intel clones (AMD being more competitive at that time). Anyway, my original point that Apple was making Macs that could boot into non-Apple OSes long before the return of Steve Jobs is affirmed by Swordmaker himself. My company had one of those 6100s, by the way. You were better off with a a PC on the side with a (floppy) Super Drive and a copy of DataViz' products. Of course there was A/UX, but I consider that an Apple OS, even if Apple licensed the Unix kernel from somebody.

Maybe DOS/Win16 compatible would have been a better term.

I run into people who stumble over the confusion of "emulator" versus "compatible" for that era Mac computers. They think it is software emulation and cannot conceive of a hardware solution. . . and are hidebound in their ignorance that Apple could never have ever had anything that was compatible with ANYTHING non-Apple manufactured. After all, they know for a fact that everything Apple was proprietary. . . despite the fact that SCSI was NOT proprietary to Apple.