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- From: tokarek ryan matthew <tokarek@students.uiuc.edu>
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- Subject: Re: PPC vs Pentium Pro Read it and spell
- Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 12:12:35 -0500
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- On 17 Jun 1996, Clifford T. Matthews wrote:
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- > NOTE: I wasn't aware of this thread until just now. I realize that
- > some extra Executor informatin has already been posted, but there are
- > a few pieces of information in this and a few other posts that I think
- > need addressing.
- >
- > >>>>> "Ryan" == tokarek ryan matthew <tokarek@students.uiuc.edu> writes:
- > In article <Pine.Sola.3.91.960610110740.15928A-100000@ux5.cso.uiuc.edu> tokarek ryan matthew <tokarek@students.uiuc.edu> writes:
- >
- > Ryan> On Mon, 10 Jun 1996, Harry Menegay wrote:
- > >> zberger@ldl.net (Psychedelic Harry) wrote:
- > >>
- > >> >>Simply because you are not. I'm a both user myself and I've
- > >> found I >>prefer Mac, especially nice as I can emulate the PC
- > >> whereas the PC cannot >>emulate me.......every PC type I've
- > >> turned on to my Power PC has been >>hooked and I doubt many of
- > >> them will stay with sheep......
- > >>
- > >> Sigh. There has been a PC program out for years now called
- > >> executor that is a mac emulator that runs on PC's. Never heard
- > >> of it? Probably because most PC users have enough software and
- > >> don't need to any from the mac . Softwindows/Softdos however
- > >> seem to be farily popular in the mac community. Hmmmm.
- >
- > Ryan> Executor does not emulate the Mac OS in any way. It provides
- > Ryan> the ability to run some Mac applications (some of those that
- > Ryan> are compatible with System 6).
- >
- > I don't know what you mean by emulate the Mac OS, but using my
- > definitions, Executor emulates the Mac OS in all but a few ways.
-
- All I meant is that you can't run the MacOS on a PC.
-
- Considering what Executor does, it is an amazing product. I was just
- pointing out that it is not the same as something like SoftWindows where
- the emulated Operating System runs along with the applications (although
-