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From: billkatt@mondo.engin.umich.edu (billkatt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Why not Mach as version 8.0
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Date: 11 Mar 90 17:42:00 GMT
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In article <4260@hub.UUCP> stoms@castor.ncgia.ucsb.edu (David Stoms) writes:
>In article <1236@swbatl.sbc.com> gilstrap@swbatl.UUCP (Brian Gilstrap - UCI - 5-3929) writes:
>First of all, Apple is never going to use any implementation of Unix in their
>current Mac platform for a number of reasons. Natually, Apple wont license a
>Unix from anyone and they wont want to rewrite the File Mgr again without a
>_VERY_ good reason. If Apple did decide to convert the File Mgr to un*x,
>it would be almost impossible to keep all the current programs compatable. Just
>the '/' instead of ':' would screw a few programs up and what about file types?.

Look before you leap.  Haven't you heard of AU/X?  Well, AU/X 2.0 is great, and
it will be coming back with a vengeance.  They licensed Unix from AT&T, NFS
from SUN, and extensions from Berkeley.  Files are kept in AppleSingle format
(very similar to MacBinary) and AppleDouble (similar to AUFS).  As for
compatibility, I ran MS Word and Excel under AU/X, in 32-bit addressing mode.
These program were able to fully access unix files.

Neat Huh?

I am not espousing Unix for everyone (not even for me), but for those who want
a Mac and Unix, too, it is coming quickly.

-Steve