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Article #441Re: floppy eject buttons [was: What's a Real Computer?]
From: Jim Wong
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1995 17:26
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1995 17:26
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Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) writes: >>Yeah, except for the fact that it hardly runs any software. >If this is true, I guess you wouldn't mind posting here the complete >list of programs run by the Executor. I don't care. I've used Executor, and though I was impressed with its performance, I found it to be nothing more than an amusing toy. Does it support sound yet? networking? System 7? the Finder? QuickTime? For what it's worth, the following is from the Executor FAQ list: "For those interested in a workable programs for your 199m get Wayzata Best of Macintosh Shareware for 19.95 from Tiger Software. It has 1500 programs all areas. I've tried about 500 and over 60% work on my comp. It is a CD-ROM. Just make sure your CD-Rom drive letter is H or lower for Executor to 'see' it. Most of the programs I've tried are 1990 or earlier, even though I did get one which required Sys 7.0 to work." 60% compatibility running programs written in 1990 or earlier? That's useless. Technically impressive, perhaps, but useless. -- Jim Wong (jd-wong@uiuc.edu)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!jd-wong From: jd-wong@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jim Wong) 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: 3 Aug 1995 17:26:25 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Message-ID: <3vr0s1$g3c@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <3uodl4$359@decaxp.harvard.edu> <3vjsar$o3l@galaxy.ucr.edu> <ericb.482.301E43AD@psu.edu> <danpop.807312743@rscernix> <3vol1tINN9j9@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <3vop8j$jj1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <danpop.807468158@rscernix> NNTP-Posting-Host: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu