[net.micro] UNIX Port To Mac / Re: Apple's new MacIntosh: specs

phipps@fortune.UUCP (Clay Phipps) (01/28/84)

What with the $50 million in university mass orders for the Macintosh,
and the imminent introduction of non-Apple hard disks for it,
why wouldn't Berkeley do the 4.2 BSD port itself ?  
Then again, does Berkeley have the resources for much UNIX work these days ?

MIT ported the "portable C compiler" to the 68000, and did other 68000 software
(often as Master's Projects and the like); maybe they're a reasonable choice.

I don't know if either school is among the institutions
handing big bags of money to Apple for Macs.

-- Clay Phipps

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spoo@utcsrgv.UUCP (Suk Lee) (01/29/84)

At present, MIT is not handing "big
bags of money" to Apple to buy their
MacIntosh.  They just received a *pile*
of equipment from HP (yay!) for use in
one of their undergraduate courses, and
it appears that for now they won't be
needing any more.

From the pooped paws of:
Suk Lee
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