Re: Apple? (subject change)

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From: Joe Sloan
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 04:19

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In article <DDBsLu.IAq@inesc.pt>,
Jaime Lares Rebelo Pinto <jlp@cheeta.inesc.pt> wrote:
>
>    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! :-)

Not to mention sendmail, xdm, inetd, syslogd...

You really don't need all the power and complexity of Unix if all
you're looking for is vi. After all, vi is even available for Dos,
so if you can't find MacVi(R), just fire up SoftPeeCee...

(Yes, I realize you were kidding about vi, as if that the were the 
main attraction of Unix)

--
 Joe Sloan     jjs@engr.ucr.edu   http://dostoevsky.ucr.edu
     Win95? No, none for me, thanks - I'm already running Linux...
 Microsoft is not the answer - Microsoft is the question; the answer is NO!

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From: jjs@dostoevsky.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Apple? (subject change)
Date: 15 Aug 1995 04:19:49 GMT
Organization: University of Calfornia at Riverside
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