Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!daveb From: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: A Few Good Rumors... Summary: Merges can be effective. Keywords: A/UX Unix FullWriter Message-ID: <2300@geac.UUCP> Date: 19 Feb 88 13:30:19 GMT Article-I.D.: geac.2300 Posted: Fri Feb 19 08:30:19 1988 References: <1406@csib.csi.UUCP> <1575@uhccux.UUCP> <42143@sun.uucp> <8184@eddie.MIT.EDU> Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown) Organization: /usr/lib/news/organisation Lines: 37 | In article <42143@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes: | Until the low end boxes have mac caliber software, it's going to be VERY | hard for them to go in after Mac environments. The low end unix box is good | for low end unix. It isn't terribly good for spreadsheets, word processing, | etc. The Mac2/AUX is probably more likely to suck out sales from the low end | of the other manufacturers simply because it can run both Unix AND Mac | stuff, not the other way around. | In article <8184@eddie.MIT.EDU> zrm@eddie.MIT.EDU (Zigurd R. Mednieks) writes: | It's odd that Chuck would think this way. My feeling is that A/UX will | not be popular with either Mac or Unix people. If I wanted a Unix, | I would buy a Sun. I would not buy A/UX for my MacII. AU/X is not as | good a Unix as a Sun and it is not as good a Macintosh as a Macintosh | running its own OS. I would get LESS of Unix and Macintosh than I | wanted. Well, I'm a Unix people, and I found that I could have almost anything that I actually **use** on unix on a mac, even before A/UX. In the process of laying groundwork for A/UX, Apple made MPW sufficiently Unix-like that porting simple programs was trivial. The worst time I had was porting wart (a yacc-like DFA compiler), because I had brain-damaged it in a port to a customer's MuSh-DOS box. That took an extra 10 to 20 minutes... I seriously expect that A/UX will deliver more ease of use to experienced Unix programmers than Sun (I've used both: horses for courses). I also seriously believe that many Mac-specific programs will run under A/UX, and will be welcomed by Unix programmers. --dave (you mean you **like** dbx?) c-b -- David Collier-Brown. {mnetor yunexus utgpu}!geac!daveb Geac Computers International Inc., | Computer Science loses its 350 Steelcase Road,Markham, Ontario, | memory (if not its mind) CANADA, L3R 1B3 (416) 475-0525 x3279 | every 6 months.