Re: Unix on Mac? Possible?

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From: Randal L. Schwartz
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 20:44

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>>>>> In article <C0B734.B45@news.udel.edu>, johnston@me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston) writes:
[talking about A/UX here]
Bill> To answer a couple of quick questions, yes, it needs a fast machine 
Bill> with FPU and lots of disk space;  so does any other "complete" unix
Bill> implementation.  Yes, gcc and other unix standards are available.

That's funny.  My copy of MachTen (a *very* complete 4.3bsd Unix for
the Mac) doesn't require an FPU at all.  In fact, I'm told it runs on
68K machines, although I'm running it on my PB160 just fine.  15MB
disk footprint *with* manpages and gcc and include files.  Way cool.
It even compiled Perl 4.035 right out of the box.  And GNU Emacs also
comes up just fine (although I haven't tried that).

Write info@tenon.com for details (I think).

The only problem I have with it so far is that it bypasses the Autodoubler
hooks, so the files must all be non-doubled.  Sigh.  Time to upgrade from
80MB to 120MB. :-)

No, I'm just a satisifed customer.

Just another Powerbook Unix hacker,
-- 
Randal L. Schwartz / Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095
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