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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MacMINIX
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Date: 4 Jun 90 22:03:01 GMT
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In article <1458@lectroid.sw.stratus.com> lennox@lectroid.sw.stratus.com (Craig Scott Lennox) writes:
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>Why is MacMINIX going to be a hosted app, rather than a REAL OPERATING SYSTEM
>as on the IBM PC, Atari, and Amiga??  

Because IBM, Atari, and Commodore are happy to tell you how the machine
works.  Apple's attitude is that you are a user and you can be trusted to
point with the mouse.  How the disk controller, clock, video,
keyboard and DMA chips work is none of your bloody business.
Kind of hard to write a native OS for a secret machine.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)