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Subject: Re: Re: Lisa/2, Mac's BIG BROTHER? & wha - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 25-Mar-84 04:07:07 EST
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fortune!rpw3    Mar 24 21:51:00 1984

I may be answering an article that I have answered before (due to the
decwrl-amd70 logjam), but it applies to "multi-tasking" (which has come
up lately) as well as to "timesharing":

NOTICE:		The Mac hardware is no less and
		no more "unsuited to timesharing"
		than is the IBM PC or XT.

The PC runs UNIX: PC/IX, Venix, Coherent [fudging "UNIX"], take your pick.

Whether anyone will choose to do the hard work to get UNIX running
on "yet another machine for which you have to use the general registers
as an MMU" [my phrase] is an open question.

That it is possible, and that it could run at quite a good clip, is not.

Rob Warnock

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