Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!netnews.engin.umich.edu!caen.engin.umich.edu!mystone From: mystone@caen.engin.umich.edu (Dean Yu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: MacIDRIS (was Re: Todd Rundgren's Macintosh OS) Message-ID: <460281bf.1b7ed@gumdrop.engin.umich.edu> Date: 3 Oct 89 04:00:00 GMT References: <1679@draken.nada.kth.se> <158@edsr.eds.com> <35053@apple.Apple.COM> <528@cpdaux.UUCP> <30881@cci632.UUCP> <2217@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> Reply-To: mystone@sol.engin.umich.edu Organization: Computer Aided Engineering Network, University of Michigan Lines: 22 Sender: Followup-To: 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. _______________________________________________________________________________ Dean Yu | E-mail: mystone@caen.engin.umich.edu Self-declared License Czar | Real-mail: Dean Yu University of Michigan | 909 Church St Computer Aided Engineering Network | Apt C INCLUDE 'Disclaimers.a' | Ann Arbor, MI 48104 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------