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From: svc@well.UUCP (Leonard Rosenthol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Multiple OSs at once! (Was: Re: Todd Rundgren's Macintosh OS)
Summary: Just started, will post more later
Keywords: Mac OS MS-DOS Apple II UNIX
Message-ID: <13919@well.UUCP>
Date: 3 Oct 89 16:41:41 GMT
References: <1679@draken.nada.kth.se> <158@edsr.eds.com> <35053@apple.Apple.COM> <1989Sep27.031443.4405@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> <528@cpdaux.UUCP> <9688@chinet.chi.il.us> <17887@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: svc@well.UUCP (Leonard Rosenthol)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In article <17887@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> thwang@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (HWANG TSONG-WEN) writes:
>In article <9688@chinet.chi.il.us> henry@chinet.chi.il.us (Henry C. Schmitt) writes:
>>
>> [other O.S.'s discussion]
>
>Has anybody actually used MacIDRIS, or am I being a little hasty in
>asking?  If not, any subjective or objective evaluations, comments,
>flames, etc. would be appreciated.
>
	I just recieved a copy of the product, MacIDRIS, and have not really
had a chance to play with it other than installing it and a little hacking
around.
	My initial impressions are not very good, as I was expecting a MUCH
better job of integrating  UNIX into the Mac. What they have done is literally
made an application which is a UNIX shell, complete with it's own file system(s)
single/multi-user operation, multitasking and SHARED MEMORY!  This is all well
and good and I give them credit for doing it, but I think it is the wrong
approach (at least for what I would have liked to see).
	I will post more after I have some time to play with it.


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