My main computer is mac.  Lovely 23 inch LCD display, dual processors,
370G of disk, etc.
But it won't run assorted PC applications, including Eagle...

So...  I plucked an old 266MHz PII machine from the dumpster,
put debian linux on it.  With X.  And it is now a "macintosh
peripheral."  I fire up X on the mac, run the "Eagle" menu item
I created in the application menu, and it seems to work pretty
well...  this should work for assorted pic-programming tools as
well, assuming they have linux versions that I can't compile
for the mac ("parallel port?  What's a parallel port?  Serial ports,
now - macs USED to have them...")

I'm still working a bit on the file sharing, but it's looking
pretty sweet, and I'm pretty happy about it.

BillW

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