<OT> Re: can't load windoze

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007, Leon Goldstein wrote:
>Net Llama! wrote:
><snip>
>
>>>>Because its windows and it sucks?  Tony, can you take this sillyness to
>>>>general where it belongs?  If i wanted to read about lame windoze bugs,
>>>>I'd read my email at work.
>>>>
>>>Installing Win 98 on a multi-boot Linux system is sillyness?  I guess
>>>I'm silly too.
>>
>>If the shoe fits.  Problems installing win98 have absolutely nothing to do 
>>with this list.
>>
>>>I need Win 98 to run my income tax program and OCR,  a proprietary pet
>>>microchip management app, to be able to download and flash firmware
>>>upgrades from time to time, and unfortunately will have to until
>>>CrossOver achieves full Win compatibility.
>>
>>So?  That's still irrelevant to this list.
>>
>Silly me!  I was obviously under the delusion that a purpose of the SxS 
>list was promoting and facilitating the Linux desktop.
>In my case and, I may be so bold as to suggest, in many other users' 
>cases, functionality still requires some Win apps, whether run in a 
>virtual machine, under emulation, or in a separate Win partition.

I haven't had any requirement to run anything under Windows since I started
using OS X about five years ago.  The only thing I used Windows for prior
to that was TurboTax which runs nicely on the Mac.  I have Microsoft Office
2004 for Mac for those rare occassions when OpenOffice.org won't handle a
Microsoft binary attachment.

As for OCR, I use Readiris for that on the Mac, a version being included in
the free software from HP for my ScanJet, although I bought the commercial
version.  One thing I really like about Readiris is that it handles OCR of
PDF files nicely.

I do have one machine on the shelf that I use on those rare occassions when
I need to burn EPROMs, a 16MhZ Tandy 4000 running DRDOS (this was my first
Xenix machine in 1987 :-)

Bill
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