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Re: Apple? - interface quirks & software matters

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From: Matthew Kennel
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 00:34
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Henrik Wetterström (henke@hv.se) wrote:

: To go on with the same subject:
: It will be a *LOT* easier to make Unix to be a Macintosh (God forbid!) than vice versa.
: Unix is becoming more userfriendly each day and Apple are attempting to make new
: MacOS preemptive. Can anybody really expect MacOS to come in first with a "final"
: version?

Unfortunately, yes, I think the MacOS will have a pretty good kernel with
approximate Unix ability before nearly all Unixes (save nextstep) have
a GUI and a band of GUI programs that are as nice as a Mac.

(I'm using LInux, and not a Mac today.)

: /Henrik (Install Linux on your PowerMac!)
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From: mbk@caffeine.engr.utk.edu (Matthew Kennel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,alt.destroy.microsoft
Subject: Re: Apple? - interface quirks & software matters
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Date: 27 Aug 1995 00:34:40 GMT
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