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From: steven@m2xenix.psg.com (Steven Furber)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MacMINIX
Message-ID: <1990Jun6.170848.10226@m2xenix.psg.com>
Date: 6 Jun 90 17:08:48 GMT
References: <1458@lectroid.sw.stratus.com> <6785@star.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: Pacific Systems Group, Portland Oregon US
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In article <6785@star.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
>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.

If this is the case, how is Mac Minix going to run in comparison to the
other versions where it is an independent OS?  Even though it will not
be a complete replacement for the operating system, why not make it a
possible complete replacement for the standard Macintosh user interface?
I have seen a couple of command line interfaces and button-oriented
launching utilities that replace the standard GUI.  This would at least
allow Mac Minix folks to not be reminded of the attitudes of the Apple
people all the time while running the machine.

Since it is going to be an application, why type of performance should
we expect from it?  If at all possible I'd like to get rid of my MS-DOS
BBS that handles Usenet (I use WAFFLE, if someone wonders) for something
that really handles Usenet; like rn, cnews, ELM, and all of those other
mail/news utilities that MS-DOS will never be able to compete with.
Will this be possible, and what type of speed can be expected on a
non-SE II or non-SE/30?

I'm looking forward to whatever is released, and hoping that it will be
able to take over this eye-sore of an MS-DOS machine's chores.

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