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From: bcs33424@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: UNIX on the Apple II?
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Date: 20 Jan 90 10:48:51 GMT
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Nf-From: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!bcs33424    Jan 19 16:42:00 1990


		C'mon, Scott, I've told you time and again that 
	the apple ][ just doesn't cut the mustard.  I read the 
	comp.unix news groups just a few times, and I've found
	that the unix wizards out there won't even recommend   
	unix on a 80286 machine.  The machine is just too slow
	and inflexible.  To port unix to the 6502 or 65C02 would
	just be impractible.  The apple ][ is past its day.  It
	can't measure up to the '386,'486, or the 68030.  Sure,
	it is a nice system, but you should face the facts and
	go use the mac ]['s in Lincoln Hall if you want to run
	unix (well, actually A/UX).  

		Some of the other responses here recommended
	a unix-like enviroment.  What good would that be, if your 
	original intention was to port unix to the apple ][.
	A unix-like enviroment wouild only be hard to use.  Minix,
	on the other hand, may have more potential.

			Bryan Siegfried
			b-siegfried@uiuc.edu
			bcs33424@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
			University of Illinois at Chambana

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