[lug] End icon envy

[rm at fabula.de]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 02:10:12PM -0500, John Karns wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, rm at fabula.de said:
> 
> > If you can live without the BSOD, one option to run MS office components
> > is to install BasiliskII, a open source Mac68k emulator. If you happen to
> > posess an Macintosh ROM image you can run OS 7.n or OS 8.n on it (7.01 and
> > 7.5 can be downloaded from apple free of charge). I can confirm that MS Exel,
> > Word, Quark Xpress, Omnis 7 and FrameMaker will work fine. The speed of it
> 
> Pardon my igorance - I know virually nothing about Macs - but I assume
> that any software that you are referring to would be Mac-specific
> versions, no?  .. or is it possible to run W32 apps on them as well?

Yes, indeed, i forgot to mention. Most of the MS-Office applications exist
in a Mac version, the prominent absentee being MS-Access.

 Ralf

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> John Karns                                        jkarns at csd.net
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