Re: VMWARE

[Bart Bunting <bart socs uts edu au>]

note your dectalk pc won't work with vmware and scsi scanners probably not either.
K.C. Habib writes:
 > I'm hoping this is true.  I'm going to college in the fall and just bought
 > a p3 500 with 128mb of ram.  Everything is scsi.  I have a Dectalk PC.
 > 
 > Currently I'm using a DOS terminal w/the Dectalk and Vocal Eyes, you know
 > the drill, to access my linux box.  I don't really mind this, except that
 > I'm going to have to use a scanner with Kurzweil Openbook next year to
 > scan in and read books.  Not only have I found no good scanning programs
 > for the linux console yet, I definitely haven't found anything for linux
 > that does what Openbook does.
 > 
 > I don't really relish the thought of rebooting my computer repeatedly to
 > switch OSes, so Vmware would be a cool alternative.  I was just hoping
 > that I could also use it to get that all-too-desired speech for linux.
 > BTW, how well would Svlpro be for someone in my position?  Does it work
 > well with all linux apps, or does it need to be optomized for each?
 > 
 > Thanks for the help, and feel free to direct me to any written matterial
 > if my questions are redundant to the list.
 > 
 > K.C.
 > 
 > 
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