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

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From: Joe Sloan
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 00:26

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In article <3vjpba$9g@datamagic.com>,
Steve Kanefsky <kanefsky@datamagic.com> wrote:
>
>In article <3vjkcr$hrp@sashimi.wwa.com>, G <blackbob@sashimi.wwa.com> wrote:
>>
>>Yes, but you can get graphics with X, too.  With UN*X the remote
>>connection can be either graphics or text.  And you don't even 
>>need a computer; you can use an X-Terminal (though a Linux box
>
>And you can even use your X terminal to control the Mac using Intercon's
>Planet X software, which lets you run the entire Mac as an X client.

Boy, I'll bet that costs a bundle....
does it include xdm?

On the other had, a full-on implementation of X, with all the goodies
is a standard part of modern unices, e.g. Solaris, SGI, *BSD, linux...

Oh, and I can run mac apps under linux/X11R6 with executor - 

I'm not knocking macs - everyone should have one... mine just happens
to be an icon on my X desktop when not in use....

--
 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: 1 Aug 1995 00:26:03 GMT
Organization: University of Calfornia at Riverside
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