mss@dartvax.UUCP (Mark Sherman) (04/06/86)
There are probably others, but Ann Marks and I constructed a MacWorkstation-like system (called QDT) last spring. We tried to get it out to Usenet and INFO-MAC, but all sorts of large files were being swallowed by Usenet and materials sent to INFO-MAC were being dropped on the floor. Since our Mac development has pretty much moved onto Macs with TML Pascal, the need to use Unix or our main (DCTS) system for Mac stuff has diminished, and development work on QDT has essentially stopped. I cannot tell you how it compares with MacWorkstation since we do not have a spare kilobuck around just to look at someone else's version. My guess is that QDT is not as complete. For those who want to look at what's there, send a note to Janice Thompson, Dept. of Math & Computer Science, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755 and ask for a copy of the current technical report list -- we distribute QDT (and other Mac software, as well as the more traditional tech reports) via our technical report mechanism. There are three Mac disks (a serial version of QDT, an Appletalk version of QDT, the sources of QDT) and a Unix tar tape (Unix/C and DCTS/PL1 sources for the host side). A short tech report describing what we did and why (i.e., it's not system documentation) is also available. P.S. I do not think we are alone. Isn't there a similar system at Brown called Harold and Maude? -Mark Sherman (mss@dartmouth.csnet)