Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!styx!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!sdcsvax!jww From: jww@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Joel West) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Mac II (really SE: A letdown?) Message-ID: <2872@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> Date: Thu, 19-Mar-87 21:02:20 EST Article-I.D.: sdcsvax.2872 Posted: Thu Mar 19 21:02:20 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 21-Mar-87 07:45:29 EST References: <422@yabbie.rmit.oz> <425@yabbie.rmit.oz> <5083@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> <5167@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> Organization: Western Software Technology, Vista, CA Lines: 16 I think there's a legitimate question as to what role UNIX should play in the micro world. IBM doesn't have an answer, even AT&T doesn't have an answer. I'm very grateful to Apple for commissioning the port, and I look forward to running vnews and the 'X Window System' (sometimes mistakenly called X Windows) on my Mac II. I just hope that if it turns out to be important, they give it the necessary resources. It's hard to get enough talented people, so I can understand their go-slow attitude at first. -- Joel West {ucbvax,ihnp4}!sdcsvax!jww (ihnp4!gould9!joel once I fix news) jww@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu if you must