Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?]

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From: Joe Sloan
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 1995 22:18

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In article <3vjeelINNnd7@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>,
Kazimir Kylheku <c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
>In article <jd-wong-3107950335510001@antwerp-10.slip.uiuc.edu>,
>Jim Wong <jd-wong@uiuc.edu> wrote:
>>
>>Not necessarily true.  There's nothing difficult about controlling a Mac
>>remotely using Timbuktu.
>
>
>Yes there is: you need (1) another Macintosh, (2) Timbuktu software installed
>on both ends.
>
>Could you program the remote machine over Timbuktu?  What if it crashes?
>Is Timbuktu *completely* transparent to all programs without any conflicts?

Actually, there is timbuktu for PeeCees - I've used it to connect a 
windoze PeeCee to an appletalk network, and it's a pretty neat hack, 
but it takes a lot of tweaking and fussing around to accomplish 
something that's easy, natural and transparent among UNIX systems...

--
 Joe Sloan     jjs@engr.ucr.edu   http://dostoevsky.ucr.edu
     Win95? No, none for me, thanks - I'm already running Linux...
 Microsoft is not the answer - Microsoft is the question; the answer is NO!

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From: jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?]
Date: 31 Jul 1995 22:18:39 GMT
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