Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!well!svc 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 Lines: 26 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. -- +--------------------------------------------------+ Leonard Rosenthol | GEnie : MACgician Lazerware, inc. | MacNet: MACgician UUCP: svc@well.UUCP | ALink : D0025