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From: The Amorphous Mass <robinson@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu>
Subject: Re: Unix Haters
Date: 1996/04/02
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On 2 Apr 1996, Kazimir Kylheku wrote:

> Kengo Hashimoto  <hashik@rpi.edu> wrote:
> >Well, yes, that's the *mainstream* application of unix. But when was the 
> >last time something like Windows was running on PDP-10? And for 
> >preemptive multitasking, Linux does it much better than OS/2 Warp, 
> >Windows 95, or Windows NT. Last I checked, System 7X did *not* 
> >preemptively multitask. Now it is true that most unix systems are the 
> 
> Also, System 7X is _huge_. You have to count that ``dark matter'' of the Mac
> that is hidden in its ROM. If you moved all the ROM code from the Mac into the
> actual bottable OS, you would end up with a ``kernel'' that is larger than
> probably any UNIX. 

  Those Unix advocates who don't want to include the X and Motif 
libraries when considering the size of Unix should not consider the 
Toolbox ROM when considering the size of MacOS. :-)  Besides, since it's 
in ROM you could theoretically install Unix on a Mac with full access to 
the Mac Toolbox (although you'd have to do a little trickery to pass the 
parameters correctly), so is it really part of the kernel? :-)
  That said, I have 7.0.2 (Max. 700K resident in RAM) and I'm getting 
increasingly alarmed at the bloatedness of 7.5.x, etc.

  Now what exactly does this have to do with C, C++, or Ada?
  Oh that's right.  Unix and MacOS are written in C. :-)

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