completely off topic (was Memory deals, was Mac OS emulation on PC)

[KA4HJH]

>In a message dated 1/13/01 12:34:31 AM, krooshof at xs4all.nl writes:
>
><< Also, there's a key combination that takes  you to forth, allowing you to
>kick a porgram out of memory with a G and the first letter of the program.
>Not much of a interface. I only pressed the combi accidentally in force
>quits, I've never realy used it. But it can be usefull if it wasn't the
>program on top that froze your system, but something underneeth (say,
>finder is on top, and Internet Exploder crashed while doing MS shit in the
>background) >>
>
>
>So that's Forth...(I don't completely understand what forth is, although I've
>heard of it, but I've been using the G command for years and years)

This sounds like the mini-debugger. I use Macsbug myself. Very useful for
gracefully quitting those hung applications and restarting the system when
the menus don't work.

-- 
Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
"The Mac Doctor"