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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:14111 comp.os.mach:3929 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.mach Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uchinews!ellis!enf1 From: enf1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Eric Fischer) Subject: Re: Anyone using MachTen on a Mac? Message-ID: <1994Jun4.091322.13685@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System) Reply-To: enf1@midway.uchicago.edu Organization: The University of Chicago References: <1994Jun3.210215.20699@midway.uchicago.edu> <2sp809$hnq@xochi.tezcat.com> Date: Sat, 4 Jun 1994 09:13:22 GMT Lines: 20 In article <2sp809$hnq@xochi.tezcat.com> ilixi@tezcat.com (Charles Ewen MacMillan) writes: >In article <1994Jun3.210215.20699@midway.uchicago.edu>, >Eric Fischer <enf1@midway.uchicago.edu> wrote: [asking about MachTen] > Dependent on _what_ Macintosh you have, the MacBSD NetBSD port, >is FREE, and does not depend upon special networking libraries for >programmers, and runs as a standalone, rather than under the Macintosh >operating system and filing system. I'm well aware of the fact that NetBSD exists, and it certainly seems like a conceptually better system than running over MacOS, but last I heard it was compatible with neither the 68040 nor built-in video, without which support it's useless to me. Would that it were otherwise... and if I knew enough about low-level Macintosh programming to try to help out the cause, I would, but alas, it's far beyond my scope. Thanks for the suggestion, though. Eric enf1@ellis.uchicago.edu