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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!news.cic.net!locust.cic.net!pauls From: pauls@locust.cic.net (Paul Southworth) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 4.4-lite? Date: 15 Jul 1994 00:23:41 GMT Organization: ETEXT Lines: 23 Message-ID: <304kud$7oe@spruce.cic.net> References: <2vgvc7$3tg@spruce.cic.net> <301rrc$cmv@masala.cc.uh.edu> <Csxxqo.DsM@newsserver.aggregate.com> <304ddq$4t3@cbs.ksu.ksu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: locust.cic.net In article <304ddq$4t3@cbs.ksu.ksu.edu>, Bubba <pharoah@ksu.ksu.edu> wrote: > But a native running UNIX is faster than running on top of MacOS. > >* This is exactly what MachTen is BSD on top of MacOS >* yes it takes a speed hit but its not that bad Compared to what? It seemed like a total dog to me... I mean, I can see the advantage for someone who really wants that MacOS running at the same time, but the speed, well, it seemed to really suck on my IIfx with 20Mb RAM, compared to a 386SX with 4Mb RAM running NetBSD... I think my compile of Perl 4.035 took about six hours. >* The only thing thats bad is lack of protected memory on the Mac side. While we're talking about speed hits, how about the WALLET hit? MachTen is expensive! Also, last I checked they weren't giving out free sources to MachTen... -- Paul Southworth CICNet Systems Support pauls@cic.net