From: jas54553@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jerry A. Segler Jr.) Subject: Re: Macintosh Linux, No Jokes! Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1993 00:24:59 GMT
>Hello,
>Well, the Macintosh April Fool's joke (Gee Matt, whatta cruel guy you are!)
>piqued my interest. . .
Good! ;) I wouldn't want something as useless as a real multitasking OS with
a *real* shell and make and ...
>Is there anybody out there who is working on such a beast? I'm kinda
>interested in playing around with it.
I would wait for the Amiga Linux version to be completed... Then take the
kernel from their to make it Mac compatible..
Once the 80x86 -> 680x0 conversion and debugging is done you shouldn't have
as many big problems with the conversion.
>PLEASE NOTE: I am *not* stating that I am "going to port Linux to the
>Macintosh, and boy will it be neato!" I'm just interested in playing around
>with some 68K/MMU combo assembly and seeing how they compare with 386 memory
>primatives, maybe duplicating the legendary 2 processes talking to each other
>that started the Linux Project, and seeing what happens. . .
I would question the support of it.. Many Mac users are quite happy with point
and click and have ABSOLUTELY no interest in a CLI...
Those who like CLI's usually opt for a IBM or Amiga.. (no.. not that debate! :)
As for the Amiga support I think it will get as much as the IBM's even though
their are fewer Amigas out their.. (Amiga people tend to be more programmer
oriented.. Or at least everyone I meet usually is... :)
-Jerry
PS: Hmm.. I missed April Fools and I had this nice 1000mhz Machine I wanted
to demo that was binary compatible with everything known to Man...
Unfortunately Picard said I had to give the Enterprises Main Core back.. 8)
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