Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nih-csl!lhc!ncifcrf!haven!aplcen!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!uplherc!giga!unislc!dgb From: dgb@unislc.uucp (Douglas Barrett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXT emulator (was Re: Mac emulator) Message-ID: <1990Oct22.222607.24664@unislc.uucp> Date: 22 Oct 90 22:26:07 GMT References: Organization: Unisys, SLC Utah Lines: 24 From article , by lane@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (Christopher Lane): > What if we reverse this question. Take a close look at the Macintosh IIci and > - Christopher ;-) ;-) ;-) (read my smilies ;-) > ------- Why smile? There exists Macs happily runnins Sys V and BSD. Straight ports, clean. I mean take the source, (after getting all of the correct and necessary licenses) for any generic 680X0 box (Sun, Apallo, HP,....) and you are 90% done. You need a few hacks for the Nubus. And if you want you can make Mac system calls (for Quickdraw) available, by simply useing a native Mac C compiler. Mach would be no more trouble. The only problem is that UNIX on a Mac makes it *very* difficult to use all of the hardware/ software available. And if you take away all of the inexpensive Mac goodies whats the point? Does anyone really believe that a sans third party network Mac is price/performance leader? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Douglas Barrett I speak for myself Unix Sytems Programmer Unisys SLC Utah