Re: Apple? (subject change)

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From: Ron Shepard
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 20:53

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>: >    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 you mean Apple's AUX, then yes there was a unix that ran on Macs, but
at that time Macs were 10x slower than the typical workstation.  Now with
PPC, the hardware difference is no longer there, but there's no (MacOS
compatible) UNIX available.

As I posted in a separate thread, I want to do fortran and C code
development under unix, and run scientific apps under unix, but I want to
write the papers and do some of the data analysis with MacOS (or with apps
that run under MacOS).

$.02 -Ron Shepard

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From: shepard@tcg.anl.gov (Ron Shepard)
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: 24 Aug 1995 20:53:49 GMT
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