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From: mystone@caen.engin.umich.edu (Dean Yu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacIDRIS (was Re: Todd Rundgren's Macintosh OS)
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Date: 3 Oct 89 04:00:00 GMT
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In article <2217@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> mblakele@jarthur.UUCP (Tad Blakeley) writes:
>In article <30881@cci632.UUCP> ph@cci632.UUCP (Pete Hoch) writes:
>>Actualy you can add one more.  MacIDRIS is a fully POSIX compatable port
>>of UNIX that runs as an application under Multifinder on the Mac.  So
>>
>>Pete Hoch
>
>	Can someone give more info on IDRIS?  Who makes it for how much,
>how much RAM does it eat, etc.  Could it be used as a command-line
>interface under MF?
>
  It works on 512K Enhanced, but it would like a meg of RAM.  No, it can't be
used as a command line under MF;  it has it's own 'partition' on your disk.
By partition I mean there's a file which is its entire file system.

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