Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!kth.se!cyklop.nada.kth.se!news From: d88-jwa@byse.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: A/UX concerns Message-ID: <1991Feb20.082410.20817@nada.kth.se> Date: 20 Feb 91 08:24:10 GMT References: <8570@etsu.CMI.COM> <250@raysnec.UUCP> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 17 In article <250@raysnec.UUCP> shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake) writes: >simply providing a kernel and utilities. Its ability to support both >UNIX and Mac applications simultaneously without resort to emulation is >certainly remarkable. Unless the alleged Mach ports can offer something >comparable there's little reason to choose it over A/UX. Well, from what I've heard, the Mach port actually DID support mac apps - and as separate processes per app, at that ! Oh, and this "virtual" mac wasn't as doggy as A/UX is (My fx feels like a II :-( macwise. Jon "The IM-IV file manager chapter documents zillions of calls, all of which seem to do almost the same thing and none of which seem to do what I want them to do." -- Juri Munkki in comp.sys.mac.programmer