Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!nuchat!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: MINIX and 68030 Message-ID: Date: 28 Sep 90 20:20:12 GMT References: <31594@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 11 In article <31594@nigel.ee.udel.edu> michel%segin4.segin.fr@relay.prime.com (Michel Pollet) writes: > In message of 25 Sep 90 08:54:02 GMT, kpurcell said : > > This is presumably not true of the mac version, as it runs on top of the > > Mac Toolbox/OS, which hides the true machine. > You're right... Many thanks to Apple ingenieers ;-) No, to the Mac-MINIX implementors who implemented it on top of the toolbox instead of replacing it. They could have done a quick blow-away-the-OS version like the ST and Amiga ports just as easily, with the same restrictions. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com