From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) Subject: Re: Unix Haters Date: 1996/04/01 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 145320725 references: <00001a73+00002504@msn.com> <31442F19.6C13@lfwc.lockheed.com> <828207683snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1996-04-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: >Dan Pop said > >"In my book, one of the main charms is that Unix runs on almost any kind >of hardware, from the most expensive to the cheapest PC (currently the >Power Mac is the exception, but Apple is actively involved in a Linux >port)." > >That's wrong, Machten, a pretty complete system 5 port, runs fine on >a Power Mac. Machten is not a "native" OS on the PMac. It runs on top of MacOS, which means that any MacOS application can disrupt its operation. Dan -- Dan Pop CERN, CN Division Email: danpop@mail.cern.ch Mail: CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland