I haven't used the new mac, but I have been following development efforts
on some lists, where people are porting things to the macosix (too bad it
wasn't macos 9)
It appears to have a full load to unix tools, and a interesting approach
to gui libraries. Apparently there are two types of libraries, with
different thread models, and such. One is very mac-like, and has better
access to media features, and the other is posix/unix like. I'm not sure
if it uses X11 or not.
The underlying unix is apparently useable. You can get a shell, I think.
--Dean
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Dima Shcherban wrote:
>
> Dear folks,
>
> A few days ago, I got a chance to play with a laptop with new MAC OS. It
> was very brief chance, so I wonder if anybody has a longer experience.
>
> I don't really use GUI, but my wife likes it a lot. In addition, this is a
> time for me to buy a new family laptop and I was thinking if this new MAC
> will make a reasonable compromise.
>
> Questions:
>
> 1. Are there any real differences bertween that MAC version of UNIX with
> conventional UNIXes, which we are accustom to?
>
> 2. Is underlying UNIX usable by itself, or not?
>
> 3. Is it possible to build any third party software of this UNIX. How
> about X?
>
> 4. Is it setup simillar to NeXT, previous attempt of "Macintosh UNIX"?
>
> I would appreciate any pointers.
>
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