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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Mac emulator
Message-ID: <891@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 16 Oct 90 01:32:32 GMT
References: <0093E3A5.D2063E80@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU> <1990Oct15.193307.11492@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <1990Oct15.193307.11492@d.cs.okstate.edu>
	minich@d.cs.okstate.edu (Robert Minich) writes:
>  There is already a free package to do AppleTalk protocols on UNIX boxes.

Some parts of that free package require access to the Ethernet
"below IP"--either DLI (DEC) or NIT (Sun) interfaces.  It looks
like Mach 2.0 started to implement DLI but to my knowledge
there's no kernel support in NeXT 1.0[a].  I'll be very
disappointed if some sort of Data Link access isn't provided in
2.0.

As an aside, it's obviously possible to create an environment
that fools Mac applications into thinking they're running
under the "real" MacOS.  What do you think A/UX does?  The
"Mac environment" is implemented as a single UNIX process in
which Mac applications aren't allowed to touch the hardware
directly.

					-=EPS=-