Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!uwvax!umn-d-ub!umn-cs!nis!wd0gol!newave!john From: john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: MacIDRIS Summary: It's an O/S sort of like UNIX Keywords: Command-line interpreter for mac Message-ID: <7@newave.UUCP> Date: 14 Jan 90 23:29:45 GMT References: Reply-To: john@newave.Ems.MN.ORG (John A. Weeks III) Distribution: usa Organization: NeWave Communications Ltd, Eden Prairie, MN Lines: 45 In article agw@cs.columbia.edu writes: > >In a previous posting, smsdpg!rht@uunet.uu.net (Randy Thompson) >mentioned a csh-like command line interpreter for the Mac that ran as >an application under MacOS. He said that he didn't remember its exact >name, but it was something like MacIDRIS. > MacIDRIS seems to be a product of Whitesmiths. It is distributed by Intermetrics, Inc, 733 Concord Ave, Cambridge, MA, 02138-1002. According to the literature that I received, MacIDRIS is the only POSIX compliant O/S for the Mac. Here is a breif list of commands that it supports (highlights only, the entire list is quite long): System Control: kill, nice, nohup, ps, sh Shell: cd, exec, if, umask, sleep, test, time File Utility: cp, chown, ln, ls, mv, sync, tar, touch Text Utility: cat, crypt, dd, emacs, grep, roff, sort, tee, wc User Utility: log, lpr, mail, passwd, su Terminal: cu, kermit, stty Development: cc, link, make, prof MacIDRIS requires a Mac+ or avove, 1M RAM (2M with MultiFinder), System 5 or above, and 5M on your hard-disk. Their literature contained a lot of detail about the actual implementation, and gave me the impression that you get essentailly a unix system, but beware of the library--if the standard unix system calls are missing and the standard library is different, it may be a non-trivial task to port your favorite unix programs to MacIDRIS. It would be interesting to hear from anyone who put down the $499 and purchased MacIDRIS. -john- =============================================================================== John A. Weeks III (612) 942-6969 ...!bungia!wd0gol!newave!john =============================================================================== <*** *** Disclaimer: Its my machine, so I can say whatever I want. *** ***>