JOE@oregon.uoregon.edu (Joe St Sauver) (12/14/89)
There has been periodic discussion in this group of providing PC emulation on the NeXT -- well, today I saw something that kind of flips that discussion on its head. Andrew Welch of Mark 3 Software has brought up a product he calls "Black Box" ($15.00 shareware) that provides a NeXT-like browser, an application dock, and other NeXT like features... and it runs on a *MAC!* I'm not sure what the main shareware channels are for Mac products, but the address on the user's manual I saw is Andrew Welch, Mark 3 Software, 29 Grey Rocks Road, Wilton, CT 06897. I suspect there is going to be a mega "look-and-feel" lawsuit over this one, ladies and gentlemen! Joe St Sauver (JOE@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU or JOE@OREGON) Disclaimer: I am in no way connected with Mark 3 Software.
mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael Thomas Niehaus) (12/22/89)
Many Mac users have found this "Black Box" INIT (startup file) interesting.
Its primary utility as I understand it is to put an "Applications Dock" on
the screen. (It does have other features as well, but none that I can
remember.)
Unfortunately, the last version that was released was very buggy. It crashed
the machine a lot (uhm, no comment here).
-Michael
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