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From: c60a-cz@danube.Berkeley.EDU (Donald Burr)
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Subject: Re: Mac OS versus A/UX, Who runs under who?
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Date: 4 Nov 90 12:51:23 GMT
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In article <{'!^2|*@rpi.edu> Garance_Drosehn@mts.rpi.edu (Garance Drosehn) writes:
>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?

A/UX is a totally seperate OS from the Mac OS.  When you launch A/UX from

the Mac finder, it does a warm-boot into the A/UX operating system -- total
new kernal, new OS, etc.  The A/UX has its own Finder, which is both A/UX
and Mac compatible.  Really nicely integrated, Apple did a good job on this
one.
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