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

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From: Jim Wong
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 1995 19:45
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In article <danpop.807538689@rscernix>, Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:

> 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.

So, it doesn't support networking.  That's what I thought.

So much for the "it out-Macs the Mac" theory.

-- 
Jim Wong (jd-wong@uiuc.edu)
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From: jd-wong@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: Fri, 04 Aug 1995 14:45:36 -0500
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