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From: Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu (Garance Drosehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Mac OS versus A/UX, Who runs under who?
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Date: 4 Nov 90 12:27:04 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst.
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References:<2909@unccvax.uncc.edu> <27337f93-fe.1comp.sys.mac.misc-1@tronsbox.xei.com> <3818@idunno.Princeton.EDU>

In article <3818@idunno.Princeton.EDU> 
           bskendig@set.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes:
>            Besides, Apple's tactics against IBM
> (that a GUI on a PC is an add-on, where it's built into the Apple) can
> be used against it here -- if you want A/UX you have to buy it and run
> it on top of the Mac operating system, whereas the NeXT is built
> around Unix to begin with  ...(etc)...

Without bothering with the religious war over which computer a certain 
individual that most of us do not know should buy, I don't think the above 
is quite right.  Please correct me if I'm wrong, but...

I thought that A/UX, when it's running, is the operating system in control 
of the machine.  The Mac OS, if it is running with A/UX, runs as a process 
under A/UX.  As such, it would not be correct to say that A/UX is running 
on top of the Mac OS.  True?  False?  True on somedays but False on others?

Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY.  USA