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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!gatech!paladin.american.edu!constellation!servalan!rmtodd From: rmtodd@servalan.servalan.com (Richard Todd) Subject: Re: 4.4-lite? Message-ID: <rmtodd.774240783@servalan> Organization: Ministry of Silly Walks References: <2vgvc7$3tg@spruce.cic.net> <301rrc$cmv@masala.cc.uh.edu> Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1994 02:52:35 GMT Lines: 38 wjin@moocow.cs.uh.edu (Woody Jin) writes: >I was always curious why they want to run BSD on a McIntosh, or Amiga. >If I can have a graphic environment (X11) with BSD on Mac or Amiga, >it may be OK. Well, the reason I'm interested in it is that I'm already running Unix on my Mac right now (A/UX), and would like to in the future run a flavor of Unix with more features (and better BSD compatibility :-) and one which might actually see a bugfix once in a while, something which ain't gonna happen with the system I've got now that Apple has as much as admitted that they've given up on A/UX (at best, they've hinted at a future release of Unix that would use the AIX codebase. Everyone out there who *wants* to run AIX, raise your hands. Yeah, thought so.) I gather a good many of the NetBSD/Amiga crowd are refugees from the collapse of Commodore's Unix product as well. >If I want the unix on McIntosh, I should be able to run unix on >top of Mac OS, run X11 window, communicate between Mac and Unix >system using graphic environment. Then this would be great. Eurggh. The prospect of having Unix running on top of such a radically different OS doesn't inspire me with confidence as to the stability of the finished product. Can you say "Eunice"? Sure, I knew you could. And the MacOS doesn't even have memory protection like VMS has... Now, having the MacOS run on *top* of NetBSD, like A/UX's "mac32" process does it, would be interesting. Probably impossible w/o knowledge of MacOS internals not available outside of Apple, but interesting nonetheless. Although I probably wouldn't have much use for it; about all I've used mac32 for in the past couple of years is to drag downloaded NetBSD/mac tarfiles and the installer over to the Mac partition so I could run the installer... :-) -- Richard Todd rmtodd@mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu rmtodd@servalan.uucp New Improved Domain: rmtodd@servalan.servalan.com --