MINIX for Mac
Ray Fischer
rfischer at Neon.Stanford.EDU
Sat Feb 2 08:24:27 AEST 1991
vince at cvs.rochester.edu (Vincent Ferrera) writes ...
> Has anyone heard of or, better yet, used this supposedly UNIX-like
Yes, and Yes.
> operating system for the Mac? Does it have any advantages over the
> standard Mac OS for things like real-time programming or directly
> accessing hardware? Does it allow you to make calls to Quickdraw
No it doesn't have any advantages. It runs under the regular Mac OS
(Finder or Multi-) and within that provides a Unix v7 like environment
complete with C compiler, assembler, shell, tools, and complete source
code for everything but the compiler and assembler. It provides
pre-emptive multitasking, two terminal windows, and other such features.
> or other toolbox functions? How hard would it be to convert a
Yes, I believe you can call the toolbox functions from programs written
under Minix.
> THINK C program which makes heavy use of the Mac OS utilities to
> run under MINIX?
Better off just running it under the Mac OS directly.
Ray Fischer
rfischer at cs.stanford.edu
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