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From: huxham@apple.UUCP (Fred Huxham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: UNIX and Mac applications on the Mac II
Message-ID: <640@apple.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-Apr-87 17:34:57 EST
Article-I.D.: apple.640
Posted: Mon Apr 20 17:34:57 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 21-Apr-87 05:38:44 EST
References: <9519@duke.cs.duke.edu>
Reply-To: huxham@apple.UUCP (Fred Huxham)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, USA
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Keywords: UNIX, Mac II, multitasking, windows

In article <9519@duke.cs.duke.edu> hsg@duke.cs.duke.edu (Henry Greenside) writes:
>Does anyone out there know if Apple will be trying to allow Mac applications
>to run as tasks under UNIX?

Applications that are "well behaved" currently run under A/UX.  One example
is FullPaint.  (It did require one patch where they had gone in and
monkeyed with the memory manager flag bytes.  We use the full 32-bits
under A/UX.  But other than the one patch, everything was fine.)


Fred