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From: massa@uni-paderborn.de (Michael Janich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Now I'm emulating a SUN
Message-ID: <1990Jul13.100150.4203@uni-paderborn.de>
Date: 13 Jul 90 10:01:50 GMT
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Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn, West Germany
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jasonf@cetemp.Eng.Sun.COM (Jason Freund) writes:
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  | The last word in emulators: the SUN emulator. (Not really)  But on a hi-res
  | interlace overscan screen with DNET running a SUN-like font in several windows
  | all doing different remote tasks -- my caluclator icon, my digital clock in the
  | corner, my new mail icon and sun mouse do a very good job of simulating the SUN.
  | Since all tasks are running remotely, it doesn't matter that the Amiga is slower
  | than a SUN because the SUN that DNET hooks up to does all the work.
You forgot X Windows, I think the most important thing.

  | How much closer can my Amiga get to a SUN workstation?
Without a MMU? I'm running SUN workstations, too. 3/50, 3/60, Spark1. And the second
famous thing is NO GURU! A simple 'core dumped' instead. Try that WITHOUT a MMU!

  | Jason Freund
  |  

Michael Janich, United Germany