Subject: Re: access to unix devices
From: chuck+na@yerkes.com
Date: Thu Jun 26 1997 - 14:53:34 EDT
It is claimed, but unverified, that alex@alsplace.com wrote:
>
> At 8.55 +0200 06.26.97, Monika Sester wrote:
> >hi,
> >i wonder whether it is possible to access unix-devices from a macintosh.
> >i'm thinking of using a cdrom connected to a unix machine.
> >
> >any answer ?
Er, have you tried mounting the CD on the Unix box and 'exporting' it
with netatalk (I assume you want to use netatalk, given this list)
[...]
> If you're feeling frisky, you can get MachTen from Tenon Systems. This is a
> full-blown Unix clone that runs under MacOS.
What *is* a Unix clone? Is this like the X-Window 'emulators' that run
on Macs and PCs (I guess they don't use X-Window protocol, they just
act like they do).
MachTen is Unix. They might not have ponied up the $$ to Novell? SCO?
X-Open? whoever owns the Unix word today. (and who'd have imagined it
might be Novell or SCO!).
MachTen's a bit odd - almost BSD, but not quite. I've found it useful
- it essentially replaces the MacOS scheduler and slices between Unix
processes and running MacOS. Let's me telnet to a mac, which it key
when supporting it from another country.
It will likely die when MacOS runs on NeXTStep - which is also Unix
(or die if Apple goes away).
> It includes NFS client
> software for your MacOS-only machines. MachTen lets you implement a
> full-blown Internet server using a Mac so you get web, ftp, telnet,
> dns, et al.
The complexity of Unix with the instability of MacOS!
Try it with netatalk - it just "exports" pieces of the filetree, not
caring whence they come. The dual fork/.Appledouble issue will be a
problem.
What's the plan for NeXTMac? Does this get to (finally) go away?
If you really want Unix, NetBSD/OpenBSD and mkLinux are worthy - though
you can't run MacOS stuff at the same time.
chuck
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