Re: VPC Micro$oft

2003-11-03 Thread Tekno Liber
From: JOHN.E.ABRAHAM [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apple should have produced their own emulator or taken over the rights to REAL PC and developed it to integrate it with any further issues of the Mac's OS. I agree 100% While it is always difficult for an OS developer when to (and not to) tread into the

Re: VPC Micro$oft

2003-11-03 Thread Tekno Liber
From: Nolen Scaife [EMAIL PROTECTED] And for the Apple should lower their prices argument. snip While Apple's prices are quite a bit more expensive than PCs, What most people are getting wrong here is that they are not comparing like for like. I can build three PCs with higher clock speed than I

Re: VPC Micro$oft

2003-11-03 Thread Laurent Daudelin
OK people, that was a very interesting thread but I can't see anymore what it brings to users of G-based laptops. Can we move on, please? You can always continue the discussion privately, if you need to... Thanks! -Laurent, G-Books list nanny. --

Re: VPC Micro$oft

2003-11-03 Thread pjspop
At 3:12 -0500 on 11/3/03, you (Laurent Daudelin), wrote: OK people, that was a very interesting thread but I can't see anymore what it brings to users of G-based laptops. Can we move on, please? You can always continue the discussion privately, if you need to... Thanks Laurent. -- HTH,

Re: VPC Micro$oft

2003-11-02 Thread Tekno Liber
From: Steve Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you are really that bothered that you can't run I386 based operating systems on your Mac, might I suggest investing in a cheap PC? Then you can run whatever you want on it. I own several PCs, but that isn't really the point. Laurence

Re: VPC Micro$oft

2003-11-02 Thread Tekno Liber
From: Steve Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] They are gone from the LIST. That doesn't necessarily mean that you can't install them or that they won't work. The text in the dialog box clearly states that if your OS is not on the list, to choose the word OTHER. I very much doubt that Micro$oft will

Re: VPC Micro$oft

2003-11-02 Thread Tekno Liber
From: Andrew Kershaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] And farther down the page is printed: Buy Blue Label 1.8 now and get special discount for Mac OS X compatible version we are working on. If you had as much experience of small companies and products like this you would know not to trust statements like

Re: VPC Micro$oft

2003-11-02 Thread Tekno Liber
From: Laurent Daudelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is BLPE Bosch? BLPE = Blue Label Power Emulator http://www.lismoresystems.com/ _ -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com

Re: VPC Micro$oft

2003-11-02 Thread Andrew Kershaw
If you had as much experience of small companies and products like this you would know not to trust statements like that! I have been in the Mac-on-PC emulation scene for a very long time, so long in fact that I have given up waiting. There were two companies that seriously promised PPC emulation

Re: VPC Micro$oft

2003-11-02 Thread Jim Scolman
Micro$oft From: Laurent Daudelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is BLPE Bosch? BLPE = Blue Label Power Emulator http://www.lismoresystems.com/ _ -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Re: VPC Micro$oft

2003-11-02 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Saturday, November 1, 2003, at 08:37 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 11/1/03 1:47 PM, Tekno Liber at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Michelle Klein-Hass [EMAIL PROTECTED] No worries though... just install Yellow Dog and have a native port of Linux running on your Mac. There are several

Re: VPC Micro$oft

2003-11-02 Thread Tekno Liber
From: Andrew Kershaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mac-on-PC emulation: Is that really relevant here, anyway? I drew the parallel with companies that were working on very difficult products and promised, but have yet to deliver. Simple as that!! Laurence

Re: VPC Micro$oft

2003-11-02 Thread Tekno Liber
From: Jim Scolman [EMAIL PROTECTED] .you guys are using Apple Powerbook laptop computers and you put a $ in the word Microsoft.get over it. Get over what ?! Fact is that Micro$oft aims to dominate the world of computing the same way Islam aims to rule the world. Everything

Re: VPC Micro$oft

2003-11-02 Thread Illovox Media
on 11/2/03 12:58 PM, JOHN.E.ABRAHAM at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Listers, I have read with interest the listings regarding VPC M$ and would like to add another side to the issue. Apple should have produced their own emulator or taken over the rights to REAL PC and developed it to

Re: VPC Micro$oft

2003-11-02 Thread Nolen Scaife
On Nov 2, 2003, at 3:26 PM, Steve wrote: With a multi-platform PC many times cheaper than a Mac, people will cross over with reluctance in order to keep their costs down (they think). One of the main things going for the Mac is its reliability, as IBM compatible PC's breakdown all to

VPC Micro$oft

2003-11-01 Thread Tekno Liber
Seeing the question about VPC on a Pismo (not I don't have the answer) made me think about the worrying future of PC compatibility on a Mac. And I mean PC, not Windoze. Connectix always strived to making VPC a PC emulator and not a Windoze emulator, but how long will it be until Micro$oft

Re: VPC Micro$oft

2003-11-01 Thread Scott Crick
On 11/1/03 11:23 AM, Tekno Liber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lisemore (BLPE) has disappeared off the face of the earth. It's stilla round. Their website has changed. Check out http://www.lismoresystems.com/ Sincerely, Scott -- Oh great! Now Hamlet's acting strange! Well, nobody out-crazies

Re: VPC Micro$oft

2003-11-01 Thread Michelle Klein-Hass
On Saturday 01 November 2003 09:23 am, Tekno Liber wrote: Seeing the question about VPC on a Pismo (not I don't have the answer) made me think about the worrying future of PC compatibility on a Mac. And I mean PC, not Windoze. Connectix always strived to making VPC a PC emulator and not a

Re: VPC Micro$oft

2003-11-01 Thread Eugene Lee
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 06:23:30PM +0100, Tekno Liber wrote: : : Seeing the question about VPC on a Pismo (not I don't have the answer) : made me think about the worrying future of PC compatibility on a Mac. : : And I mean PC, not Windoze. : : Connectix always strived to making VPC a PC

Re: VPC Micro$oft

2003-11-01 Thread Steve Fuller
This has already come to pass...the new VPC will not allow Linux to be installed on that. No worries though...just install Yellow Dog and have a native port of Linux running on your Mac. Bill Gates is made irrelevant once again. That is, unless you need to run Windows on your Mac. Everything

Re: VPC Micro$oft

2003-11-01 Thread Steve Fuller
M$ has already removed Linux, *BSD, Netware, and Solaris from the list of supported guest OSes. http://www.msfn.org/comments.php?id=5516catid=1 They are gone from the LIST. That doesn't necessarily mean that you can't install them or that they won't work. The text in the dialog box clearly

Re: VPC Micro$oft

2003-11-01 Thread Tekno Liber
From: Scott Crick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lisemore (BLPE) has disappeared off the face of the earth. It's stilla round. Their website has changed. Check out http://www.lismoresystems.com/ Ah, cheers!! However, this'll be the telling tale: Mac OS system requirements: PowerPC, Mac OS 8.x - 9.x

Re: VPC Micro$oft

2003-11-01 Thread Andrew Kershaw
Ah, cheers!! However, this'll be the telling tale: Mac OS system requirements: PowerPC, Mac OS 8.x - 9.x Important Note: Current version of Blue Label does not support Mac OS X and Classic environment. If it stays like that it'll be pretty pointless... Fingers crossed. And farther down the page

Re: VPC Micro$oft

2003-11-01 Thread Tekno Liber
From: Michelle Klein-Hass [EMAIL PROTECTED] No worries though... just install Yellow Dog and have a native port of Linux running on your Mac. There are several reasons for wanting to run an x86 version of Linux, or other x86 OSs, and this is now a thing of the past as nobody has the finances to