nhaldar@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Neil A. Haldar) (02/05/91)
Well, I guess this message is in response to Barry Shein's quest for a
user-friendly windowing computer with Unix.
Barry, have you ever tried a Macintosh with A/UX? The Macintosh is a
great computer, and it offers you Unix as well. A/UX, although produced by
Apple, is fully AT&T UNIX System 5 v6.x compatible. (I think I got that
right). It offers great compatibility, in the fact that programs written in
1984 under system 1.x still work under v6.0.7. Actually, only certain
programs do, but if you are going to run software, who'd pick '84 stuff?
Secondly, System software v7 is due to come out soon, and will offer.
beyond other things, virtual memory. Any free space on your hard drive will
be converted into pseudo-RAM, and so you could have 20 or 30 megs of RAM with
a large enough hard drive.
The Mac is now a fantastic and stable platform. What else can I say?
As far as programming goes, Microsoft has got a type of compiled BASIC on
this machine. And if you hate code of any sort, a product called "Serius
Programmer" allows you to create programs through a fully icon-based
'language'. It's incredible.
I know I'm posting this to the comp.society.futures base, so only
short flames are listened to. Thank you.
-Neil
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