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From: folta@tove.umd.edu (Wayne Folta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: MacOS programs under A/UX
Summary: How do they work?
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Date: 12 Jan 90 03:02:41 GMT
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I have heard that well-behaved (32-bit clean) MacOS applications will run
unmodified under A/UX.  My question is, do they appear as UNIX processes?
Do they participate in the pre-emptive multitasking of UNIX?  Are they
prevented from clobbering other tasks?

I ask for two reasons: 1) I'd like to be able to run Word, PageMaker, FreeHand,
etc., if I ever get A/UX; and 2) if MacOS programs run nicely under A/UX, then
it would seem that pre-emptive MultiFinder wouldn't be as hard as some have
said.
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Wayne Folta          (folta@cs.umd.edu  128.8.128.8)