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- From: d88-jwa@hemul.nada.kth.se (Jon Wtte)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Unix-like environment
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.213906.23175@kth.se>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 21:39:06 GMT
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- In <93021.172716HAC041@DJUKFA11.BITNET> HAC041@DJUKFA11.BITNET (Konrad Hinsen) writes:
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- >1) Unix-like tools
- > Are Emacs and the standard Unix-tools available for the Mac? If yes,
- > where can they be obtained?
-
- Emacs, no. Standalone tools, yes; most run under the MPW Shell
- which can be seen as a very strange kind of windowed UNIX shell...
-
- >2) A/UX
- > Is it a realistic proposition to use A/UX as a development platform
- > for 'standard' Mac systems? Apple claims that normal Mac applications
- > can be used under A/UX, but how does it work out in practice?
-
- Oh, it works well enough. However, the Mac part of the UNIX
- process is slower than a "raw" Mac.
-
- > Are Emacs and the other GNU utilities available for A/UX, or has
- > FSF's boycot against Apple prevented that?
-
- Nope, they're ftpable in source or compiled. You can not build
- Mac applications using gcc, though; you'll have to run GNU Emacs
- and MPW C separately.
-
- Also, there's a good editor called "alpha" that looks a bit like
- emacs, on the "raw" MacOS side.
-
- --
- -- Jon W{tte, h+@nada.kth.se, Mac Hacker Deluxe --
- Engineering: "How will this work?" Science: "Why will this work?" Management:
- "When will this work?" Liberal Arts: "Do you want fries with that?"
- -- Jesse N. Schell
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