Richard Robinson wrote:
>On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Jack Campin wrote:
>
>> > The only other course open to someone determined not to pay
>> > for software but still wanting special funstions is to do
>> > what the rest of us do - get out gcc / emacs / TeX and get started!
>>
>> I'd like to, but (a) the abc2mtex port for the Mac doesn't work and is
>> unsupported and (b) nobody's done an MPW port of any PS or TeX converter
>> that I could use as a starting point (MPW is the only free C compiler
>> for the Mac). I know zilch about GUI programming, have no interest in
>> learning it, and am not about to waste a year of my life reinventing
>> wheels. If I can get one of my old Suns working, I'll be in a better
>> position to do some ABC implementation, as I'll be able to disregard
>> the GUI stuff.
>
>What's with this story about the New Mac OS being some kind of Unixy
>variant ? Will that give Mac people access to all the GNU stuff ?
>
Yes, it's BSD Unix underneath. You can run gcc and compile all the same
stuff on it. There are also at least two variants of linux which will
run on Macs. but the advantage of OSX is that you can run classic Mac
programs at the same time.
None of this helps Jack though, as none of it will work on
his antique 68K Macs. MPW will run OK though, and if he can find a copy,
the old Apple Unix A/UX will also work.
Phil Taylor
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