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Jeff Halverson (halv0019@gold.tc.umn.edu) wrote:
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: Well, not necessarily.  Perhaps if you had said "native" software I could have 
: agreed.  What Mac or DOS computer have you seen that can run UNIX software?  A 

    Many Macs can run UNIX, so they can run UNIX software. If UNIX sales for
the Mac were not very high, that's because users didn't want it, even
knowing that they would be able to run some Mac apps on top of it.

    If I would run UNIX on my Mac, I would be able to run vi on it!
Great! :-)

: good UNIX machine can run DOS or Macintosh programs.  --some can even run all 

    Can I just buy a Mac CD-ROM with software that uses digital sound, video,
MIDI, whatever, and run it? Is the emulation 100% functional?

    And there are great sofware + hardware solutions for the Mac, like audio
sequencers, video production software, ...

: this side by side in the same X-window display (SCO)...  I think Linux is 
: striving for the same thing, and I am confident that we will see this soon.  
: And when we run it on a 266Mhz Alpha, We won't even realize that its going 
: through any emulation!
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: Jeff halverson


    It doesn't strike me as a great idea to buy an Alpha to run an
incomplete emulation of a Mac!

    I would prefer to buy a Mac with Unix and MacOS, if I would realy
need UNIX, or just the MacOS.


    Cheers,
    Jaime.