Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac:39075 comp.sys.mac.programmer:9318 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!uwm.edu!srcsip!manyjars!mnkonar From: mnkonar@manyjars.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Murat N. Konar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Todd Rundgren's Macintosh OS Message-ID: <32895@srcsip.UUCP> Date: 27 Sep 89 21:20:07 GMT References: <16409@brunix.UUCP> <4399@internal.Apple.COM>Sender: news@src.honeywell.COM Reply-To: mnkonar@src.honeywell.com (Murat N. Konar) Organization: ipd Lines: 23 In article time@oxtrap.UUCP writes: >NextStep is *not* an operating system. >Mach is. Mach is the operating system on the NeXT. >In fact, Mach is a really neat OS, but due to marketing >implications, NeXT downplays Mach, and promotes the UNIX they >emulate on top of it. As I understand it, there is no "emulation" of UNIX on top of Mach, rather Mach is a UNIX variant (a cool one) that is compatible with Berkley UNIX 4.3 (or something; sorry kids, I'm no UNIX fan so I don't really know the lingo). What NeXT is doing in their marketing is trying to prevent the perception that UNIX and Mach are so divergent that never the twain shall meet (like um, MS-DOS and the MacOS) and that Mach and UNIX are similar where it counts (so you can run software compiled under Berkely UNIX on the CuBE). ____________________________________________________________________ Have a day. :^| Murat N. Konar Honeywell Systems & Research Center, Camden, MN mnkonar@SRC.honeywell.com (internet) {umn-cs,ems,bthpyd}!srcsip!mnkonar(UUCP)