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From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: Lisa/2, Mac's BIG BROTHER? & what to use the MAC for
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Date: Sun, 19-Feb-84 13:37:25 EST
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> Possibly a "network computer" similar to the Sun Microsystems
> and Cadmus products is in the works.  Un*x for a stand alone
> Macintosh is unlikely -- while a Macintosh is a fine personal
> computer, the Macintosh hardware is unsuited to timesharing.

So who said anything about "timesharing"?  UNIX does timesharing well but
it is available on a *number* of single-user machines, including (surprise,
surprise) Sun and Cadmus (as well as IBM, remember?).  The Macintosh hardware
*is* unsuited to multitasking; I believe it doesn't have any memory mapping
hardware (the 8086 family (N < 80286) sort of has it, so you can fake it
well enough).  Nor does the MAC have the hard disk that UNIX requires (because
UNIX goes to the disk so often, because the standard V7 filesystem used by most
UNIX implementations moves the heads too much, and because there's so *much*
of UNIX that you'd have to wrap your floppy in duct tape before putting UNIX
on it).

	Guy Harris
	{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy