kemp@noscvax.UUCP (Stephen P. Kemp) (12/05/84)
This is a summary of my query:
Does anybody know of a UNIX implementation for the 512k Macintosh?
Steve Kemp {ihnp4, decvax, akgua, dcdwest, ucbvax}!sdcsvax!noscvax!kemp
Computer Sciences Corp. kemp@nosc.ARPA
Naval Ocean Systems Center
San Diego, CA
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>From sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!oliveb!ios!daves Wed Nov 28 21:17:58 1984
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>I don't know of any Unix for 512K Mac, but would be very interested
>in anything you find out!
>
>A friend of mine, who supported the Apple Mac group, told me
>that the interrupt structure on the Mac is such that it
>can't support true multi-tasking. If so, it would be
>very difficult to support unix. However, my friend is not
>a technical person, and left Apple a year ago, so maybe
>it actually is possible.
>
>Dave Schnepper
>ios!daves
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>From sdcsvax!ihnp4!rlgvax!guy Thu Nov 29 00:25:55 1984
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>Not bloody likely, given 1) the 512K Mac hasn't been out for long, 2) the
>Mac doesn't have memory management (which makes straight UNIX difficult;
>it'd either have to run like Mini-Unix and swap only one process into memory
>at a time, or work with a compiler that generated code that referenced all
>global variables either relative to the PC or to some other register), nor
>does it have a hard disk as a standard feature, and 3) it'd be a real waste
>of a Mac, in my opinion, unless somebody made it possible to use all the
>user interface goodies in the Toolbox in programs (if I had a Mac I'd refuse
>to use programs with a conventional OS type user interface).
>
> Guy Harris
> {seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy
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>From sdcsvax!akgua!ihuxq!agk Thu Nov 29 20:31:41 1984
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>> Does anybody know of a UNIX implementation for the 512k Macintosh?
>No. But the problem is not solved by 512Kby of main memory; the real
>problem is the lack of decent sized disks. The kernel with a suite of
>commands can consume 3-4 megabytes without trying. And the user usually
>wants to keep a few things out there too. I wouldn't look at a disk
>smaller than 10 Mby, even for personal uses.
>
> -andy kegel