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Received: from flibble.cs.su.oz.au (srn-ppp-epping.cs.su.OZ.AU [129.78.111.83]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id BAA11223 for <executor@nacm.com>; Fri, 19 May 1995 01:11:18 -0700 Received: (from srn@localhost) by flibble.cs.su.oz.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id SAA21930; Fri, 19 May 1995 18:08:41 +1000 From: Stephen Robert Norris <srn@flibble.cs.su.oz.au> Message-Id: <199505190808.SAA21930@flibble.cs.su.oz.au> Subject: Re: Two Items, One: Does Linus know?, Two: Appleshare over AFS To: jesse@exodus.MIT.EDU (Jesse Hong) Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 18:08:41 +1000 (EST) Cc: executor@nacm.com In-Reply-To: <199505190501.BAA00426@exodus.MIT.EDU> from "Jesse Hong" at May 19, 95 01:01:58 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 775 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. Executor is _more_ stable than DOSEMU, at least in my experience. The dosemu that runs under X, for example, only does text modes (although the current plans may change that, at least for Windows). > Jesse Hong Stephen