Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!rminnich
From: rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mac ][ bashing / blitters are not everything
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Date: 8 Aug 88 16:24:57 GMT
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In article <5053@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>Funny, we run A/UX (Almost Unix) on our Mac-II and it multitasks just
>fine.  Even though A/UX shipped a year or 18 months late, it is finally
>here.  Where is Amiga's Unix, so Amiga users can stop reinventing 10
>and 20 and 30 year old software and start moving forward?
ah, i see, you have multitasking under A/UX. And you run, what,
microsoft word and hypercard and and macpaint and macdraw on this
machine as you are running A/UX?
  And you can run queries on hypercard data bases from A/UX applications?
Be nice to maintain /etc/passwd in a hypercard database, with pictures
and all.
   And you can import MacDraw pictures into the TeX documents under A/UX?
And you can, ..., well you get my drift. Can you, or can't you.
If you can, you have a heck of a nice system there. I might even
buy one. 
   And if you can't, what's the point? That you can build an 
over-priced unix box out of the MAC ][? A box that is about as 
compatible with the Mac OS as an amiga is?
ron
P.S. Damn shame about hypercard. Apple could define the standard
hypertext environment with this product if they would only be as 
open about it as sun is about NeWS. Instead they are using it to 
sell one hardware platform that will only ever be a niche machine.
Thing is, if they opened it up it would probably sell MORE mac ]['s...