Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!lll-winken!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!widener!news.cs.indiana.edu!bronze!cricket.bio.indiana.edu!gilbertd From: gilbertd@cricket.bio.indiana.edu (Don Gilbert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: Cave Men and Dinosaurs (& A/UX future) Keywords: arcaic Message-ID: <1991May25.131509.7009@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Date: 25 May 91 13:15:09 GMT References: <1991May25.052820.27220@am.dsir.govt.nz> Sender: news@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Biology, Indiana University - Bloomington Lines: 17 In article <1991May25.052820.27220@am.dsir.govt.nz> sramtrc@albert.dsir.govt.nz writes: >Have you noticed that with time, A/UX is looking more like MacOS and MacOS is >looking like A/UX? I would like to see this continue till they converge >and A/UX is dropped. Then MacOS will be unix compatible and buyers will not >buy SunOS when for the same price they can get MacOS on superior hardware. >Then it will be a kind of MacOS/Motif/OpenLook war where MacOS clearly wins >since it has everything the others have plus thousands of MacOS programs. Yes -- I think this is where Apple could make another big impact in the system software/user interface area. Perhaps the quote in MacWeek that Apple hopes to be one of the top 2 *Unix* vendors in the next few years is a clue that Apple thinks so also (System 8 == A/UX 3 on a few million macs would have an impact). -- Don -- Don Gilbert gilbert@bio.indiana.edu biocomputing office, biology dept., indiana univ., bloomington, in 47405