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Apple Software Updates (ftp.info.apple.com)

http://support.info.apple.com/ftp/mirrors.html

FTP site containing all the updates for Apple software products. If you need to update your version of Apple System 7, or need a patch for a Windows printer driver, look here first.

ARDI Executor

http://www.ardi.com

Download a working demo of Executor, a 100% native software Macintosh emulator for DOS, Linux, and NEXTSTEP. Enter a specific Mac program, such as Illustrator 5.5 in the Online Documentation link search engine to find out if it has been tested on Executor.

Current Operating Systems Projects and OS-related research

http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/bridges/oses.html

An incredibly detailed compendium of every known OS research project worldwide. If you're interested in the future of computer operating systems, check out the Full Alphabetical List of OS Projects, which describes dozens of OS research projects currently underway at universities and companies such as Sony, Sandia, Bell Labs, and Sun.

Florida Tech HELP DESK

http://www.fit.edu/InfoTechSys/arcs/help.html

Provides FAQs, online books, articles, and reviews about UNIX and the Internet for those who are new to the language or the ‘Net. An excellent resource for the budding UNIX guru and future Web master.

Openstep for Windows

http://www.next.com/OpenStep/Welcome.html

The OPENSTEP development language from NEXT provides businesses with an object-oriented environment for creating custom client/server applications on any platform. This site explains NEXT's advanced environment, their product line, and lists authorized sales centers. Click on About NEXT to see screen shots of each of their products in use.

OS/2 Warp Product Family Home Page

http://www.austin.ibm.com/pspinfo/os2.html

Information for newcomers to the Warp operating system and support for existing users. This page has dozens of links to e-zines, technical support,
Usenet groups, and developers conferences. Newcomers should click on the billboard on this page
to download a free working demo of the Warp operating system.

PC-DOS 7

http://www.austin.ibm.com/pspinfo/supplemt.html

Are 16-bit operating systems still available? You bet! IBM's recent update to PC-DOS includes built in Stacker compression, memory optimized commands, built in REXX programming language, and more. This page describes at length version 7's endless number of features.

Que's Complete List of Windows 95 Products

http://www.mcp.com/60769111715267/que/win95/complete.html

Lists every upcoming book on Windows 95 and Win95 software. If you don't see a title here you may eventually need, you're probably a Microsoft programmer! All the book titles are organized by category, such as Excel 95, Winword 95, and PowerPoint 95.

This Week's Popular UNIX Downloads

http://www.shareware.com/top/UNIX-table.html

Lists in order the 30 most popular UNIX programs downloaded from shareware.com's Web site. To download your own copy of any of these programs, simply click on a filename. This list usually includes the best freeware/shareware UNIX software available.

Xiaomu Niu's Internet Application Collection for Windows

http://sage.cc.purdue.edu/%7Exniu/winsock/

Well-designed site provides hundreds of the most recommended Win 3.1 and Win95 Internet programs. Simply find the type of software you're looking for and click on the program Xiaomu recommends. This site is broken up into a Win3.1 and Win95 section and further divided into the different types of communication on the Internet (FTP, Telnet, IRC, WWW, and so on.)

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.

—Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943