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From: CMHolm@va24669.hac.com (Carl Holmberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: UNIX for the Mac
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 10:53:58 -0700
Organization: Hughes Missile Systems Company
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References: <3j5ccn$19un@tequesta.gate.net> <pde-0203951552410001@bubba.res-hall.nwu.edu> <3jgj3o$2uj@rrunner.jpl.nasa.gov>
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> >danb@gate.net (Dan Benjamin) wrote:
> >> I'm looking for a UNIX system for the Mac, but can't afford Mach Ten and 
> >> want a text-based system anyway.  Can anyone help?  I'll be running it on 
> >> an old Mac SE.

> Peter Eckenrod <pde@nwu.edu> wrote:
> >I am trying the exact same thing. I think MacMint runs on an SE but I
> >haven't tried it yet. If you get ANYTHING at all to work, let me know.

eldred@rrunner.jpl.nasa.gov (Dan Eldred) wrote:
> Hey, I had MacMiNT running on a Mac Plus, but it was torture.  The shell
> was way too slow, and 4 megs of memory was pretty marginal for compiling
> any large programs.

I was going to suggest MacNetBSD, but I believe it requires a 020+PMU or
030. My understanding was that MacMiNT wasn't really up to snuff, yet. You
could try MacMinix. It isn't free, but at about $80, it's much cheaper
than MachTen, and there's a Minix newsgroup to bitch in. If you're in the
LA area, you can pick it up at OpAmp Technical Books. Otherwise, try a
university computer/book store.

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