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Received: from exodus.MIT.EDU (EXODUS.MIT.EDU [18.250.0.24]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA08566 for <executor@nacm.com>; Thu, 18 May 1995 22:02:00 -0700 Received: (from jesse@localhost) by exodus.MIT.EDU (8.6.11/8.6.9) id BAA00426 for executor@nacm.com; Fri, 19 May 1995 01:01:58 -0400 Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 01:01:58 -0400 From: Jesse Hong <jesse@exodus.MIT.EDU> Message-Id: <199505190501.BAA00426@exodus.MIT.EDU> To: executor@nacm.com Subject: Two Items, One: Does Linus know?, Two: Appleshare over AFS Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk Hi, Just yesterday, Linus Torvalds was here at MIT giving a talk. He had made mention of DOSEMU, Wine, and the iBCS2 compatibility on Linux, but he did not mention Executor, which I think is close to the level of DOSEMU in stability. Executor could be a big winner with Linus if it can run PowerPoint since he did his slides in PowerPoint for Windows and was complaining having to switch and such and how Wine isn't quite up to it. Don't know if he gives a lot of talks (don't think he does) but he could be good publicity. On a second note, just as a wish, since I am on the internet and I have AFS, I can access the AFS archive of Mac programs at mac.archive.umich.edu. They also have a unpacked "natural" version of the archive which can be "mounted" as an AppleShare volume. It'd be nice if I could be able to run all of thier shareware/freeware programs directly off there just to test them out. I don't think that a large portion of your market quite has the accessibility that we enjoy here so it probably isn't something you are working on, but separate from the networking, is the AppleShare "filesystem" format supported? (all these .AppleDouble directories, seems like if it could look for .AppleDouble/filename rather than %filename then everything would work fine for me...). Thanks. Jesse Hong ===============================================[add any disclaimer here]====== 305 Memorial Drive, Room 104A Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Mechanical Engineering http://exodus.mit.edu/~jesse/homepage.html jesse@mit.edu