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

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From: Kazimir Kylheku
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 19:52
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In article <danpop.807312743@rscernix>, Dan Pop <Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch> wrote:
 >In <ericb.482.301E43AD@psu.edu> ericb@psu.edu (Eric Bennett) writes:
 >
 >>In article <3vjsar$o3l@galaxy.ucr.edu> jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan) writes:
 >>
 >>>Oh, and I can run mac apps under linux/X11R6 with executor - 
 >>
 >>Yeah, and I can play Heretic under SoftWindows... NOT.  Executor is neat, but 
 >>not very useful since it fails on quite a few Mac applications.
 >>
 >Who cares, as long as it runs _those_ applications you want/need to run?
 >
 >The nicest feature of the Executor is that it is a good citizen in a
 >multi-tasking environment.  I use it remotely, from my Alpha workstation,
 >and the owner of the Linux box isn't affected by the fact that I'm using
 >his box to emulate a Mac, while he's doing his work on the box.  Remote
 >Mac control without Timbuktu :-)

I have used the thing too! It's very nice, and fast! It's faster over
a networked X terminal than a real Mac using the local video bus.
Plus it doesn't crash your computer when something goes wrong. I'd say
that the Executor "outmacs" the Mac.
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From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku)
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: 2 Aug 1995 12:52:29 -0700
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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