On Fri, 14 May 2004, Steven Buehler wrote:
> On Fri, 14 May 2004, Eben King wrote:
>
> > > Gee, then you could run a PC emulator and have MS Office....<grin>
> >
> > Heh... ssslllooowww.
> My suggestion would be, if you've got a smokin' Mac, to use Virtual PC and
> run an x86 Linux distro on it.
Heck, even if your Mac isn't smokin', you can run Linux of some kind
natively. No reason (except binary-only software) to run x86 stuff.
Mine's an emulated fast 680x0 Mac, courtesy of Basilisk. AIUI, if I found
a Mac emulator that emulated the MMU too, then I'd be able to run some
*nix on it.
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