vince@cvs.rochester.edu (Vincent Ferrera) (02/02/91)
Has anyone heard of or, better yet, used this supposedly UNIX-like operating system for the Mac? Does it have any advantages over the standard Mac OS for things like real-time programming or directly accessing hardware? Does it allow you to make calls to Quickdraw or other toolbox functions? How hard would it be to convert a THINK C program which makes heavy use of the Mac OS utilities to run under MINIX? Just asking, vince
rfischer@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Ray Fischer) (02/02/91)
vince@cvs.rochester.edu (Vincent Ferrera) writes ... > Has anyone heard of or, better yet, used this supposedly UNIX-like Yes, and Yes. > operating system for the Mac? Does it have any advantages over the > standard Mac OS for things like real-time programming or directly > accessing hardware? Does it allow you to make calls to Quickdraw No it doesn't have any advantages. It runs under the regular Mac OS (Finder or Multi-) and within that provides a Unix v7 like environment complete with C compiler, assembler, shell, tools, and complete source code for everything but the compiler and assembler. It provides pre-emptive multitasking, two terminal windows, and other such features. > or other toolbox functions? How hard would it be to convert a Yes, I believe you can call the toolbox functions from programs written under Minix. > THINK C program which makes heavy use of the Mac OS utilities to > run under MINIX? Better off just running it under the Mac OS directly. Ray Fischer rfischer@cs.stanford.edu