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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!sgiblab!a2i!nntp.crl.com!Michael.Hauser From: hauser@woodwind.com (Michael Hauser) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Question(s) about MachTen Date: 17 Oct 1993 09:42:55 GMT Organization: Woodwind Software Lines: 37 Sender: -Not-Authenticated-[2124] Message-ID: <29r42v$fqd@nntp.crl.com> References: <djc105-141093102330@150.203.18.80> <29i7rk$4i5@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: woodwind.com X-Posted-From: InterNews 1.0@nntp.crl.com. Xdisclaimer: No attempt was made to authenticate the sender's name. In article <djc105-141093102330@150.203.18.80> djc105@rsphy2.anu.edu.au (Damian Jackson) writes: > Somebody showed me a little information about a macintosh unix called > MachTen, and I wanted to know where I could find a little more about it. Contact Tenon Intersystems at (800) 6-MACH-10. I just bought a copy of the Pro version. I paid 544+tax (from Winner's Circle in Berkeley) for the full Pro version which includes both the standard Unix (demand-paged, protected memory) VM kernel and the non-VM kernel, the GNU development stuff, NFS, and standard BSD TCP/IP with MacTCP emulation (so that you can run your MacTCP-based apps on the machine too). The personal version is about $150 less but it doesn't include Unix VM, gcc, or gdb. If you want the full documentation set, it's around $250 (I didn't need it). The X server/client/Motif package is around $300. The installation was very simple. Among other things, I'm planning to use it as a IP forwarder for my LAN. It provides routing between AppleTalk, SLIP, and Ethernet, and IP forwarding. In article <29i7rk$4i5@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> pauls@css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth) writes: >Overall integration of the filesystems was not great -- you had >to use conversion tools to transfer files back and forth, although >the filesystems used the same partition space. This seems to have changed. MachTen is supplied with BBEdit Lite, which is a Mac text editor which reads Unix or Mac text files and automatically maps cr/newline. MachTen just sits on top of the Mac filesystem. Michael Hauser Woodwind Software hauser@woodwind.com