Thank you for the speedy reply managers, 25 replies in all! No mas! No mas!
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In Sum (special thanks to Phil Antoine (antoine@RadOnc.Duke.EDU):
> product is called Liken.. $695 fixed and $895
>for floating license
>Yes, there is a product from Xcelerated Systems called Liken. I am currently
>runnung version 1.2 on my SS2 under OS 4.1.1 and MIT X11R5. The initial
>offering (V1.0) only worked under Openwindows because they used some of the
>Sun extentions, but they've gotten away from that. Version 1.2 emulates a Mac
>Classic running System 6.0.7 and LaserWriter driver 5.2. It doesn't yet
>support Multifinder and they are currently working on System 7 support. As it
>sits on my desk, it is a fairly functional Mac. You can't use 800/400K
>floppies because the Sun floppy drive can't physically cope with those Mac
>disks.
>It sells in single CPU and floating license configurations. We have a floating
>license. It works well for the things we do. We compose documents on our
>desktop and if they don't involve really intense fonts, we print from there.
>I say that because I am having trouble with wysiwig of my New York font. Liken
>submits Postscript via lpr to your Unix postscript printer. I'm pretty sure
>it's the printer (HPLJIII w/ Postscript module). Other than that, it works
>well. They claim to run hundreds of packages and DA's without trouble. I
>haven't had trouble with any that we use. As long as the package doesn't try
>to tweak the hardware it's probably fine. The sound interface has been trapped
>such that the Sun will beep at you for the Mac system beep. That's all the
>sound you'll get for now.
>They can be reached at 619-576-3080 (San Diego)
Thanks to all who responded so far:
blymn@mulga.awadi.com.AU (Brett Lymn) **first reply**
David Fetrow <fetrow@biostat.washington.edu>
"Adam W. Feigin" <feigin@iis.ethz.ch>
Stephen Gallacher support@elec.gla.ac.uk
Steve Elliott <se@computing.lancaster.ac.uk>
peter@key.amdahl.com (Peter Sivo)
root@micom.com (Todd L. Kindig @ Micom Comm. Corp.)
sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber)
Dan Transue <odt@dcs.bellcore.com>
Nigel Mitchem - System Support <nigel@cs.city.ac.uk>
antoine@RadOnc.Duke.EDU
willard@hvsun1.mdc.com (David Willard)
Bob Rutherford <rr6204@moses.boeing.com>
"Marc P. Rinfret" <Marc.Rinfret@eng.canadair.ca>
don@mars.dgrc.doc.ca (Donald McLachlan)
Daniel@europarc.xerox.com
gcs@prs.hmc.psu.edu (Gregory C Saggers)
ucsdev!rkh@d1.att.com
mgh@bihobl2.bih.harvard.edu (Michael G. Harrington)
rcsmith@sed.csc.com (Ray Smith)
rg@issi.com (Ron Gilmer)
<Ronald.C.Russell@ag.auburn.edu>
pingel@oieng.mke.ab.com (Bob Pingel (4439))
walfish@jpmorgan.com (Joshua Walfish
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