Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1a 12/4/83; site rlgvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!guy From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.apple Subject: Re: Lisa/2, Mac's BIG BROTHER? & what to use the MAC for Message-ID: <1734@rlgvax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 19-Feb-84 13:37:25 EST Article-I.D.: rlgvax.1734 Posted: Sun Feb 19 13:37:25 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 20-Feb-84 02:20:04 EST References: <311@tesla.UUCP> <1685@rlgvax.UUCP>, <273@dual.UUCP>, <190@vaxine.UUCP> <251@wu1.UUCP> Organization: CCI Office Systems Group, Reston, VA Lines: 18 > 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