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- Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 23:36:15 +0200
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- From: ernstoud@euronet.nl (Ernst_J._Oud)
- Subject: MACup
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- Hi Clifford et al,
-
- In my posting 'The translation of the review of Executor in MACup'
- I forgot to tell you that E/D is also mentioned in the editorial
- on page 3.
-
- After a lengthy introduction on emulators of all kind (comparing the
- hole in 45 rpm singles with the smaller hole in 33 rpm LP's so that you
- needed an adapter to play singles on most record players; kind of
- an emulator - totally missing the point if you ask me), one of the
- editors (Stephan Selle) writes:
-
- ...
- Windows lovers talk in general in a negative way about the
- Macintosh, polemic and without any objectivity, when we Mac-users
- are capable of proving the superiority of our systems with facts.
- However in spite of their justified case it seems that also in the
- Wintel world every now and then the mind goes towards Mac software.
- For those now 'Executor' comes to the rescue, a program that emulates
- the MacOS on Intel computers. At this moment the disguise only goes
- as far as System 6.0.7, but when Executor is succesful ...
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- Apple, normally very eager to salvage its crown jewels, cannot do
- anything, because creator Ardi has substituted the Finder by a
- hierarchic file list and does not violate any Apple copyright.
- Otherwise a succesful Executor could make Apple's weak licensing
- policy unnecessary; every supplier of Intel computers can supply,
- next to OS/2 Warp and Windows, a Mac operating system on its
- harddisks.
- ...
-
-
-
- Ernst J. Oud ernstoud@euronet.nl
- 100265.3601@compuserve.com
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- Our dreams escape us almost as vividly as we can imagine them,
- but we have to keep passing the open windows.
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- John Irving - The Hotel New Hampshire
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