Russ is da man (conf call switchover)

Robert Olson olson at mcs.anl.gov
Fri Apr 28 12:42:37 CDT 2000


The thing to remember is that we have plans, not involving windows and the 
AudioPerfect tools, and not only involving the Gentner, for the control 
machine.

--bob

At 02:27 PM 4/28/2000 -0400, Douglas Johnson wrote:
>This is what I do on my laptop, so it definitely works.
>
>Doug
>
>On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Stuart Levy wrote:
>
> > George (?) wrote:
> > >>   Are you talking about the Audio Perfect Tools Version 2.0 Software for
> > >>the Gentner, that only runs on Windows 95/98, or is there another Gentner
> > >>control software that runs on NT or Linux?
> >
> > ... and Bob replied:
> > > Yes, that's the software I'm talking about.  We're planning on a Linux
> > > version of it, but will require a chunk of development time that we 
> don't
> > > have at the moment ... (good student project!!)
> >
> > Gee, could this be a job for VMWare -- just run a Win9x virtual machine
> > on an existing Linux box?  I haven't used VMWare, but if all the
> > Audio Perfect Tools software does is to run a GUI and talk through
> > the serial port to the Gentner, surely it'd work.   Cheaper &
> > smaller than another box.  Of course a real Linux version would be much
> > handier once somebody gets the time to create it.
> >
> >    Stuart
> >




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