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From: garym@telesoft.UUCP (Gary Morris @shine)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: UNIX for the Mac? (Don't laugh...)
Message-ID: <283@telesoft.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Dec-85 00:56:41 EST
Article-I.D.: telesoft.283
Posted: Fri Dec  6 00:56:41 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 9-Dec-85 03:07:02 EST
References: <686@k.cs.cmu.edu> <1566@Shasta.ARPA>
Reply-To: garym@telesoft.UUCP (Gary Morris @shine)
Organization: TeleSoft, SanDiego CA
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Summary: Xenix is available for Mac XL

In article <1566@Shasta.ARPA> gus@Shasta.ARPA writes:
>> Does anyone know any strong reason that a 2 Megabyte Mac with a couple of
>> twenty meg hard disks could not be a perfectly good UNIX workstation?  
>Yes, folks, eventually, you MIGHT be able to port UNIX to the Mac, but it
>would take so many hardware kluges which ar NOT supported by Apple that it
>would hardly be a viable product.

Xenix is available right now for the Lisa (Macintosh XL), $795 from Microsoft.
I considered buying it but decided I didn't want to dedicate my hard disk to
unix and not be able to run Mac software without dumping/reloading the hard
disk.  It will run with as little as 5 Meg of disk space.  I know of two
people locally who use it.  I'll bet it would run faster in a 2Meg Mac
w/hyperdrives than it does on the Lisa. 

--GaryM
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