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From: llp@psuhcx.psu.edu (Laura L. Pauley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: UNIX on the Apple II?
Message-ID: <2026@psuhcx.psu.edu>
Date: 19 Jan 90 19:31:21 GMT
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In article <6952@wpi.wpi.edu> greyelf@wpi.wpi.edu (Michael J Pender) writes:
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|I'm starting to understand now.  I never understood why people were
|all fired up about unix, but basically its because it would allow the
|user to do several things at once.  On the current hardware of an
|apple IIgs I can't see multiusers (can you say one keyboard boys and 
|girls?) but multiple processes running would be possible.
|
Although I can see it.  Multi users on a GS wouldn't be that hard.  Yes it
take time and some money in serial cards, terminals (or modems), and ram 
upgrades.  But I could see it happening.  Hell, there is already a chat line 
(6 lines) that is run on a 128k //e.  Now if you can see 6 people on a //e. I
can easily see 5-6 people on a //gs.

|In a nutshell I would like to see a primitive add-on to Prodos that
|would provide the user interface and a couple of commands, like
|ls, cp, cat (like the type command).

Command Com, Davex, or I think Minix (if it has successfully been ported) will 
do that.  I have benn playing with Command Com since it came out, and I have 2
different enviornments set up on it. Unix style and Ms-Dos.