Re: [MacPerl] Writing line-ending agnostic scripts? (fwd)

[John W Baxter <jwblist@olympus.net>]

At 15:45 -0500 8/1/97, Mark Manning/Muniz Eng. wrote:
>My question is, will the non-Unix side of the Mac be really
>running as a process on the Unix box?  Or are they going to
>be two separate OSs and you can only have one of them up
>and running at a time?  Having the true MacOS running as a
>process under the Unix OS would be the ideal way to go
>since then when an app did something funky the MacOS could
>be killed and then restarted (or maybe just restarted).

The answer is found many places...a convenient one being MacTech's August
issue, another being Apple's web site.

BSD Unix runs on Mach kernel and with "plugin driver architecture", etc.  A
recent change is the Mach 3 has replaced Mach 2.5.

Blue Box (MacOS) runs above that.

So does Yellow Box.

So does the Java thing.

Yes, you can restart the Blue Box after it crashes.  I may even believe it
after a year or so.

--
John Baxter (Born before ENIAC, but not by much.)
   jwblist@olympus.net      Port Ludlow, WA, USA



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