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- From: leonardr@netcom.com (Leonard Rosenthol)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: MAC emulators on unix?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.170515.16064@netcom.com>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 17:05:15 GMT
- References: <1992Dec16.161953.13720@mcs.kent.edu> <BzE426.6uo@ansoft.com>
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- In article <BzE426.6uo@ansoft.com> Jon Gotow <gotow@ansoft.com> writes:
- >In article <1992Dec16.161953.13720@mcs.kent.edu> Stephen Scott,
- >sscott@mcs.kent.edu writes:
- >>Has anyone heard anything about LIKEN - this claims to be a macintosh
- >>emulation environment for unix systems. I found it in a SUN World ad
- >>by a company called Andataco. However, the "fine print" at the bottom
- >>of the page says - "Liken is a trademark of Xcelerated Systems Inc."
- >>So I assume that Andataco is the marketing firm.
- >
- I haven't actually used LIKEN, but it and all of the others
- emulators have a problem that will be hard for them to overcome, and that's
- supporting "resource compressed" products. This includes, but is not limited
- to: System 7, ResEdit, MORE, Norton Utils, Public Utils, StuffIt (Lite/Deluxe
- and Expander), all Salient/FGS products and the list goes on...
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