thomas@duteca (Thomas Okken) (11/20/90)
I want to get unix on my Mac. If there were only A/UX, I'd have an easy time choosing the way to do it, but I've heard of a number of alternatives: Minix, Mach, OS/9. Are any of these systems any good? Specifically, do you get a true multiuser, multitasking, virtual memory system with all the goodies (mainly programming tools: cc, make, lex, yacc, etc.)? Can true unix software be ported to these systems? In short, do any or all of these systems constitute a true replacement for the real thing (A/UX)? If anyone has something to say about this, I would like to hear from you. I'm especially interested in your bad experiences: systems that are very hard to get up and running, use huge amounts of disk space, problems getting public domain software to compile, etc. Please answer only by e-mail; I will post a summary to comp.sys.mac.misc. To everyone who spends any fraction of their time answering questions like these: thank you, thank you, thank you. I really appreciate it! :-) :-) Thomas Okken (thomas@duteca.tudelft.nl)