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Roy Lewallen wrote:

EZNEC is now able to run under Linux using the wine emulator. EZNEC
version 4.0.34 (the current version) or later is required.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL

That's great news. Now does anyone know whether it will run under
CrossOver (the CodeWeavers implementation of WINE for Intel Macs)? That
would give me an excuse for upgrading from a year 2001 G4 PowerPC
Macintosh to a year 2007 Intel Macintosh. Mac OS X is to a large extent
based on the BSD variety of UNIX.

I know that the CodeWeavers people have mainly concentrated on getting
things like the Windows versions of the Micro$loth Office suite of
programs to run under CrossOver, the point of which escapes me since
Office has been around for Macs even longer than it has for Windows
machines and thus Mac users are under no pressure to be able to use the
Windows versions of the Office programs. (Word and Excel files are, for
the most part, platform-independent, or at least are easily translatable
between Windows and Mac formats. I frequently turn Mac Word 5.1a files
into Windows XP Word files to give to my daughter, and do the reverse
when she sends me Word files. Such translation is easily done on a Mac,
and with some difficulty can be done on a Windows machine.)

Ironically if I were to get an Intel Mac, one of the programs I could no
longer use is the lean, mean 1992 Mac version of MS Word 5.1a, still
working nicely after 15 years on my year 2001 computer. This program
runs faster and better under Classic (i.e. Mac OS 9) within Mac OS X
than it ever did in the old days. Two layers of emulation are going on
here -- OS X is emulating OS 9, and the PowerPC version of OS 9 is
emulating a 680x0 CPU on a PPC chip (G5, G4, G3, or earlier) -- Word 5
was written before the days of the PPC chips. Classic is not readily
available for Intel Macs (there are semi-satisfactory hacks which make
it sort of work).

David, ex-W8EZE

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