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- From: knee@netcom.com (Mark Lanett)
- Subject: Re: How to get Mach; Mach for Mac?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.061702.7514@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <a75cb5a8@mtlookitthat.chi.il.us> <1992Dec23.191109.23956@netcom.com> <1hagdoINNc5v@transfer.stratus.com> <1992Dec23.210000.7920@netcom.com> <1hapgfINNc5v@transfer.stratus.com> <1992Dec24.005237.8069@netcom.com> <1hb9huINNnjd@transfer.stratus.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 06:17:02 GMT
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- dswartz@sw.stratus.com (Dan Swartzendruber) writes:
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- >This I don't understand. I'm running A/UX now. It runs on the naked metal and emulates
- >the Mac desktop via Unix magic. Why would you "be locked out of the Unix side"?
-
- I said that to use _both_simultaneously_ you need A/UX or MachTen. When you
- launch the MacOS from MacMach it appears to take over; although it's running
- from under Mach you'd never be able to tell*. You get no access to unix from
- the MacMach MacOS. With A/UX you have the CommandShell and can make unix calls;
- with MachTen it's similar. Not so with MacMach.
-
- *Actually, since the machine hung if I attempted to use AppleTalk I guess you
- _could_ tell... whether AT is unuseable in this situation or that was a bug
- I cannot say.
-
- Mark L
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