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

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From: Dan Pop
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 1995 12:18

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In <3vr0s1$g3c@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> jd-wong@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jim Wong) writes:

>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.

Like the Mac itself, right :-)  You can't expect a toy emulator to be more
than a toy, can you?
>
>Does it support sound yet?  networking?  System 7?  the Finder?  QuickTime?

Well, I use it from a remote workstation and the Mac apps are on an NFS 
volume.  Looks like networking capabilities to me.  And yes, I couldn't
care less about the native networking protocols of the Mac (way too much
broadcasting to be a decent citizen in a large LAN) when the Executor
runs on a Unix system, which has the networking right.

Dan
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Dan Pop
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