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- From: briggs@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Allen Briggs)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss
- Subject: Re: "official" FSF position on apple
- Message-ID: <BuMxA2.GDI@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 19:39:37 GMT
- References: <1992Sep15.051438.28757@uwm.edu> <frain.716570605@depot.cis.ksu.edu.cis.ksu.edu> <1992Sep15.184845.156@news.nd.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep15.184845.156@news.nd.edu> dmatiske@caravaggio.helios.nd.edu (david matiskella) writes:
- > However the main problem with proting GNU stuff to the mac is
- >that most of them will require major rewrites. They are not designed
- >around an event driven architechure. The ones that have been ported
- >generally require MPW which simulates a lot of unix calls.
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- This is a minor point, but Apple does have a un*x offering for the
- "higher-end" mac's. I've been using A/UX for the last 4.5 years, and
- it's not that hard to get most std un*x stuff to compile on it... It
- beats the heck out of most 80386 versions that I've seen.
-
- -allen
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